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In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · as of August 2026
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
During the first part of his career, Winslow Homer supported himself as an illustrator, but in the early 1870s he found that he could make a good living through the sale of his watercolors. His early watercolors, such as this one of boys on a beach at Gloucester, Massachusetts, show a tentative use of the technique and often have the effect of colored line drawings. Homer later combined the composition of this watercolor with other sketches to produce the illustration A Clam-Bake, which appeared in Harper's Weekly on August 23, 1873.
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Thomas Churchyard (British, 1798–1865) — Coastal View
Dwight Blaney (American, 1865–1944) — Over the Ledges
Robert Charles Dudley — Foilhummerum Bay, Valentia, Looking 
Maurice Prendergast (American, born Newfoundland [now Canada
John Singer Sargent — Viana do Castelo
William Dyce — Culver Cliff, Isle of Wight
Eugène Isabey (French, 1803–1886) — Cliffs by the Sea at Céz
Johan Barthold Jongkind (Dutch, 1819–1891) — Le Havre
Charles Demuth — Two Women and Child on Beach
Samuel Prout (British, 1783–1852) — Drake's Island, Plymouth
Maximilien Luce (French, 1858–1941) — The Sea at Camaret, Th
Samuel Palmer — View of Clovelly, Devon
