John Singleton Copley, Watson and the Shark, 1778 - National Gallery of Art
John Singleton Copley’s dramatic painting Watson and the Shark (1778) depicts a shark attacking 14-year-old Brook Watson. The work caused a sensation when it was exhibited at London’s Royal Academy in 1778.
Watson and the Shark - Wikipedia
Watson and the Shark is an oil painting by the Anglo-American painter John Singleton Copley, depicting the rescue of the English boy Brook Watson from a shark attack in Havana, Cuba. Copley, then living in London , painted three versions, which are all now in the United States.
The Gulf Stream (painting) - Wikipedia
In Homer's painting, the scene is more static: the sharks seem to swim slowly around the boat which lolls in a trough between waves. The looming sharks of The Gulf Stream have been compared to the damned souls that besiege The Barque of Dante by Eugène Delacroix .
Art Object Page - National Gallery of Art
We look onto the side of a rowboat crowded with nine men trying to save a pale, nude young man who flails in the water in front of us as a shark approaches, mouth agape, from our right in this horizontal painting.
Danger! Shark! - National Gallery of Art
How has Copley told you that Brook Watson has already suffered one attack from the shark at the moment this scene was painted? (A bloody stump below his right knee indicates that the shark has bitten off his lower leg.) The shark is swimming …
A Youth Rescued From a Shark [After John Singleton Copley's painting …
The painting is both romantic and naïve - the gory leg is hidden beneath the water showing little blood, and the uncharacteristic (but none the less ferocious looking) shark is depicted with forward-facing eyes and lips, and unusually rounded pectoral fins.
Watson and the Shark | History, Description, & Facts | Britannica
Watson and the Shark was inspired by a celebrated incident that took place in 1749 off the shore of Havana, Cuba. Brook Watson, a 14-year-old boy serving as a crew member on a trading ship, was attacked by a shark while he was swimming alone in the harbor.
Watson and the Shark - Detroit Institute of Arts
Brook Watson had been sent to sea at fourteen; he decided to go for a swim while his ship was docked in the shark-infested waters of Havana Harbor. The painting depicts the moment when the shark is coming by for his third and possibly final attempt to make a meal out of Watson.
Homer Winslow's The Gulf Stream | A Formal Analysis
Jul 13, 2017 · This painting is done in a semi-overhead view style, relatively small to medium in length and width. It is of a black man on a small boat in an ocean infested with man-eating sharks with a storm brewing on the distant horizon. The man depicted in the painting has a muscular build, tall and athletic.
SHARK TALE - artforum.com
Jul 28, 2022 · What to make of this painting of a recumbent young Black man on the rear deck of a derelict fishing boat, mast-less, floating in stormy, sunstruck tropical waters between sharks and flying fish? Currents pull the helpless vessel out to sea, …