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The Open Sea

The Open Sea

Maker John Brett (British, 1830 - 1902)

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Art Collectors' Council: 1995 - 2024

ClassificationsDRAWINGS

Date1865

Mediumwatercolor and white opaque watercolor with scraping out on wove paper

Dimensions9 × 12 3/4 in. (22.9 × 32.4 cm.) sheet: 9 3/4 × 13 1/8 in. (24.8 × 33.3 cm.)

Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Purchased with funds from the Art Collectors' Council and the George R. and Patricia Geary Johnson British Art Acquisition Fund

CopyrightPublic Domain

Status

Not on view

Label TextBrett spent the winter of 1865–66 on the Isle of Wight aboard his yacht, the Baby, recording his observations of the sea. In this watercolor, he divides sky from ocean with a bank of low clouds, worked in subtle bands of blue, lavender, and green. One cloud rises above the rest, its apex caught by the sun in an explosion of white. The sea below is a mix of greens, grays, yellows, and blues that blend in layer upon layer of transparent washes, evoking the depths of the water and the rolling movement of the waves (2022).

Object number2018.8

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