Winslow Homer · 1884
The Life Line
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A rescuer in a breeches buoy carries an unconscious young woman, her head thrown back and a red shawl streaming, along a rope above heaving grey-green surf under a stormy sky. Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Up to 25.3 × 16 in · landscape
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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Materials & quality
›Canvas & inks
Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.
›Floater frame
Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.
›Posters
Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.
›Faithful to the source
Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.
The story of The Life Line
Homer saw a demonstration of the breeches buoy, a rope-and-pulley rescue device, at Atlantic City, New Jersey, in the summer of 1883 and finished The Life Line the following year. The picture shows the rescue of a passenger from a stricken ship. Critics recognised it at once as a major contribution to American art, and it is now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Winslow Homer
Winslow Homer was an American landscape painter and illustrator, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters of 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in American art in general.
All Winslow Homer prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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