The Gulf Stream

Homer strands a lone sailor on a dismasted boat amid heaving seas, circling sharks and a distant waterspout. Tense and elemental, it pits human vulnerability against nature's indifference. It is a high point of American Realism.

The Gulf Stream

Winslow Homer

  • Date1899
  • MovementRealism
  • WhereMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  • RegionUnited States