Sheep Porcupine Island, Bar Harbor, Maine, Evening Study, August 29, 1

A dark, wooded island rises low from a flat expanse of grey water beneath a soft, heavily clouded sky. Wash tones fade toward a distant shoreline on the left, and the broad, quiet water fills the lower third of the sheet.

Look closer: A faint distant shoreline runs along the left horizon behind the island.

Artist

John La Farge

Date

1896

Medium

Watercolor and gouache on off-white wove paper laid down on off-white wove paper.

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

2300 × 1581 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Alice Thorp, 1953