Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Gulf Stream (painting)

The Gulf Stream (painting)

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Original – The Gulf Stream, an 1899 oil painting by Winslow Homer which shows a man in a small rudderless fishing boat struggling against the waves of the sea. It has been described as "a particularly enigmatic and tantalizing episode, a marine puzzle that floats forever in a region of unsolved mysteries."

Reason: High resolution, and a very dramatic work
Articles in which this image appears: The Gulf Stream (painting) +5
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
Creator: Winslow Homer

Support as nominator – — Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:09, 31 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support - A great artist. Great work, great scan. Aren't boats weird things? Just a tiny boat is separating him from the sharks. Hafspajen (talk) 05:48, 31 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Why is bamboo spilling out of the cabin? Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 08:12, 31 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- He doesn't seem to be in a position to clean it up, mind. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:19, 31 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  - Found it- the bamboo is for a shallow dipnet with a split bamboo frame (a “callie”), which is used to scoop up fish. The fish are attracted by throwing chum in the water. The sharks have eaten his fish, and are in a feeding frenzy. They'll clean it up for him Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 15:05, 31 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    - He'll be lucky if that's all they do. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:07, 31 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support A glimpse of hope - ship on the horizon to the left. Brandmeister^talk 09:27, 1 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support – another good piece of artwork in this series by Homer. SagaciousPhil - Chat 10:53, 1 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support - great image, quality scan.--Godot13 (talk) 07:35, 6 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Winslow Homer - The Gulf Stream - Metropolitan Museum of Art.jpg --The Herald 09:52, 10 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

6 support, 0 oppose The Herald 09:52, 10 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]