#fisherwives

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Winslow Homer - Windy Day, Cullercoats, 1881, Graphite and gouache on tan laid paper.

Cullercoats is a fishing village of North East England. Wives and daughters of the fishermen gathered bait, mussels, and limpets. "The Cullercoats fish wife, with her cheerful weather-bronzed face, her short jacket and ample skirts of blue flannel, and her heavily laden "creel" of fish is not only appreciated by the brotherhood of brush and pencil, but is one of the notable sights of the district"   --Jean F.Terry, 1913

 Winslow Homer (1836-1910) is an American landscape and seascape painter and printmaker. He is mostly self taught. Homer began his career as a comercial artist. He worked as an artist correspondent during the American Civil War. Homer loved to paint marine subjects.

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Aloïs Boudry - Interior with fisherwives - 

Aloïs Boudry (12 August 1851, Ypres – 27 November 1938, Antwerp) was a Belgian painter known for his portraits, still lifes and interiors.

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Winslow Homer - Girl with Red Stockings, 1882, watercolour over  graphite pencil on  paper

Cullercoats is a fishing village of North East England. Wives and daughters of the fishermen gathered bait, mussels, and limpets. "The Cullercoats fishwife, with her cheerful weather-bronzed face, her short jacket and ample skirts of blue flannel, and her heavily laden "creel" of fish is not only appreciated by the brotherhood of brush and pencil, but is one of the notable sights of the district"   --Jean F.Terry, 1913

Winslow Homer (1836-1910) is an American landscape and seascape painter and printmaker who is mostly self taught. Homer began his career as a comercial artist. He worked as an artist correspondent during the American Civil War.

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Winslow Homer - Women on the Sands (Mussel Gatherers), 1881-82, black and white watercolour and white chalk  on brown pape

Cullercoats is a fishing village of North East England. Wives and daughters of the fishermen gathered bait, mussels, and limpets. "The Cullercoats fishwife, with her cheerful weather-bronzed face, her short jacket and ample skirts of blue flannel, and her heavily laden "creel" of fish is not only appreciated by the brotherhood of brush and pencil, but is one of the notable sights of the district"   --Jean F.Terry, 1913

Winslow Homer (1836-1910) is an American landscape and seascape painter and printmaker who is mostly self taught. Homer began his career as a comercial artist. He worked as an artist correspondent during the American Civil War.

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Winslow Homer - Looking Out to Sea, circa 1881, watercolour

Cullercoats is a fishing village of North East England. Wives and daughters of the fishermen gathered bait, mussels, and limpets. "The Cullercoats fishwife, with her cheerful weather-bronzed face, her short jacket and ample skirts of blue flannel, and her heavily laden "creel" of fish is not only appreciated by the brotherhood of brush and pencil, but is one of the notable sights of the district"   --Jean F.Terry, 1913

Winslow Homer (1836-1910) is an American landscape and seascape painter and printmaker who is mostly self taught. Homer began his career as a comercial artist. He worked as an artist correspondent during the American Civil War.

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Winslow Homer - Fisher Girls on Shore, Tynemouth, 1884, charcoal and chalk on paper

Cullercoats is a fishing village of North East England. Wives and daughters of the fishermen gathered bait, mussels, and limpets. "The Cullercoats fishwife, with her cheerful weather-bronzed face, her short jacket and ample skirts of blue flannel, and her heavily laden "creel" of fish is not only appreciated by the brotherhood of brush and pencil, but is one of the notable sights of the district"   --Jean F.Terry, 1913

Winslow Homer (1836-1910) is an American landscape and seascape painter and printmaker who is mostly self taught. Homer began his career as a comercial artist. He worked as an artist correspondent during the American Civil War.

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Winslow Homer - Fisher Girls on the Beach, Cullercoats (1881), watercolour

Cullercoats is a fishing village of North East England. Wives and daughters of the fishermen gathered bait, mussels, and limpets.

"The Cullercoats fishwife, with her cheerful weather-bronzed face, her short jacket and ample skirts of blue flannel, and her heavily laden "creel" of fish is not only appreciated by the brotherhood of brush and pencil, but is one of the notable sights of the district"   --Jean F.Terry, 1913

Winslow Homer (1836-1910) is an American landscape and seascape painter and printmaker who is mostly self taught. Homer began his career as a comercial artist. He worked as an artist correspondent during the American Civil War.

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Winslow Homer - Fishergirls coiling tackle; Fisherman's Daughters, 1881, watercolour on paper

Cullercoats is a fishing village of North East England. Wives and daughters of the fishermen gathered bait, mussels, and limpets. "The Cullercoats fishwife, with her cheerful weather-bronzed face, her short jacket and ample skirts of blue flannel, and her heavily laden "creel" of fish is not only appreciated by the brotherhood of brush and pencil, but is one of the notable sights of the district"   --Jean F.Terry, 1913

Winslow Homer (1836-1910) is an American landscape and seascape painter and printmaker who is mostly self taught.