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Eight Bells (painting)

Winslow Homer. Eight Bells (1886). Oil on canvas, 64.1 × 76.5 cm (25.2 in × 30.1 in). Addison Gallery of American Art.[1]

Eight Bells is an 1886 oil painting by the American artist Winslow Homer. It depicts two sailors determining their ship's latitude. It is one of Homer's best-known paintings[2] and the last of his major paintings of the 1880s that dramatically chronicle man's relationship to the ocean.[3]

  1. ^ "Collection Spotlight: Eight Bells". Addison Gallery of American Art. Archived from the original on 2011-06-06. Retrieved 2010-09-03.
  2. ^ Cikovsky, 236
  3. ^ "Spotlight". Addison Gallery of American Art. Archived from the original on 2011-06-06. Retrieved 2010-09-03.
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