What are some really good paintings of water scenes?

Question

I know of Monet's Nympheas and Van Gogh's Starry Night Over Rhone. They are great. Can you tell me of any other great ones like those and who they are by?

Answer 1

Here are water "scenes" of a little different nature, The water lilies by Monet, and Ophelia by John Everett Millais.

Answer 2

"Boy in a Dory" by Winslow Homer, 1880, watercolor on paper. The picture has a slightly , bright, transparent look to it. The white portions of the work are the papers color showing through.



" The Wave" by Marsden Hartley, 1940, oil on masonite. This picture is by 20th century Marsden Hartley, an American artist. Hartley captures an enormous wave that has just broken over a rocky coastine. You can almost hear the loud cymbal-like crash of the water against the shore.

Answer 3

Look up Atkinson Grimshaw, he did some amazing night scenes of harbours and the sea such as:



'Scarborough Bay'

'In Peril'

'Nightfall Down the Thames'

'At Anchor'

'Lights in the Harbour'

'The Lighthouse at Scarborough'



Also Turner painted some breath-taking water scenes:



'Fishermen at Sea'

'Fishermen upon a Lee-shore, in Squally Weather'

'Ships Bearing up for Anchorage'

'The Shipwreck'

'Keelmen heaving in Coals by Night'

'Slavers throwing overboard the Dead and the Dying, Typhon coming on'

'Peace - Burial at Sea'

'Rough Sea'

'Snow Storm - Steam-boat off a Harbour's Mouth making Signals in shallow Water, and going by the Lead. The Author was in this Storm on the night the Ariel left Harwich'



Two of my favourite artists.

Answer 4

You've pretty much mentioned it. Water and all.



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