Painting and Sculpture

Eight Bells (painting)

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 and the last of his major paintings of the 1880s that dramatically chronicle man's relationship to the ocean.

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See also

• ▸Holy Family with the Family of St John the Baptist
• ▸AVIATR
• ▸Between the Tides (painting)

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