Water Imagery

These works turn to lakes, coastlines, and open water, from calm harbors to churning icebergs and surf. Boats, fishing scenes, and waterside rooms appear throughout, with light playing across the surface of rivers, seas, and sand. The mood shifts between still and stormy, but water remains the constant thread.

Lake Louise, British Columbia by Edward Henry Potthast I
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Sand dunes with beach grass overlook a sandy beach and blue ocean with distant beachgoers under a partly cloudy sky.
Frank V. Dudley
Across Sunny Sands
1944

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A sparse interior room with white walls and a green floor opens onto a blue ocean through an open door, painted in muted tones.
Edward Hopper
Rooms by the Sea
1951 · oil

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Snow-capped mountains rise behind a meandering river winding through forested valley in black and white landscape photograph.
Ansel Adams
The Tetons and the Snake River
1942

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Open window framing a coastal seascape with sailboats, ivy, and potted flowers in vibrant reds, greens, pinks, and blues.
Henri Matisse
Open Window, Collioure
1905 · Oil on canvas

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A child wrestling with a large carp in water, rendered in Japanese woodblock print style with blues, browns, and flesh tones.
Kaidomaru Wrestling a Carp in a Cascade
colour woodblock print

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A detailed woodblock print depicting a carp swimming among aquatic plants in shades of black, gray, and cream.
Carp Among Pond Plants
colour woodblock print

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A coastal landscape painting depicting dramatic red rock formations, turquoise waters, and golden sunset sky with vegetation and distant structures.
Castle Rock, Cape Schanck
1875 · oil on canvas

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A seascape painting depicting waves with white crests, beach grasses in the foreground, and birds flying beneath a cloudy sky in blues, greens, and sandy tones.
Frank V. Dudley
Harbingers of the Storm
1935

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A sailboat with white sail navigates blue-green waters under a bright blue sky dotted with white and gray clouds.
Frank V. Dudley
Off Duneland Shores
1935

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Fishing boats with tall masts beached on sand beside calm water, painted in blues, reds, greens, and sandy tones.
Vincent van Gogh
Fishing Boats on the Beach at Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer
1888

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A mountain lake surrounded by coniferous forests and snow-capped peaks, rendered in greens, blues, purples, and whites.
Edward Henry Potthast I
Lake Louise, British Columbia

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Coastal landscape painting depicting rocky shore at low tide with sailing boats on calm waters under cloudy sky.
Alfred Thompson Bricher
Low Tide, Hetherington's Cove, Grand Manan
1881 · oil

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Rocky coastal landscape with sailboats on the horizon under a cloudy sky, painted in blues, greens, and earth tones.
Alfred Thompson Bricher
Castle Rock, Marblehead
1878 · oil

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Coastal landscape at sunset showing two moored boats on a sandy beach with rocky outcrops, calm water, distant sailboats, and warm golden light across the sky.
Alfred Thompson Bricher
Coastal View at Sunset
1880 · oil

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A sidewheel steamboat docked at a riverside town under dramatic cloudy skies, painted in warm golden and purple tones.
Alfred Thompson Bricher
The Sidewheeler "The City of St. Paul" on the Mississippi River, Dubuque, Iowa
1872 · Oil on canvas mounted on board

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A seascape painting depicting a coastal landscape with mountains, sailing vessels, a sandy beach with rocks, and calm turquoise waters under a cloudy sky.
Alfred Thompson Bricher
Seascape
1898 · oil

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Five river trout arranged diagonally across blue water with Japanese calligraphy and red seals on a light blue background.
Andō Hiroshige
River Trout
Color woodblock print

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A man with a red head covering rows a wooden boat across blue-gray water under a pale sky.
Thomas Eakins
John Biglin in a Single Scull
1874 · oil

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A rower in a single scull on a calm river with a bridge, trees, and distant figures in muted browns and grays.
Thomas Eakins
Max Schmitt in a Single Scull
oil

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Two rowers in a small boat with oars navigate past a blue flag on a river, with trees and spectators along the distant shore.
Thomas Eakins
Biglen Brothers Turning the Stake
1873 · oil

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A small sailboat with cream-colored sails and two figures aboard moves through dark water under a gray sky.
Edward Hopper
Sailing
1911 · oil

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A stylized heron stands against a dark sky and blue water, composed of layered patterned sections in red, green, white, and yellow.
Corrina Leidy
Heron
acrylic

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A pointillist painting depicting a sailboat on the Seine river with trees lining the shore in greens, blues, and earth tones.
Georges Seurat
The Seine at La Grande-Jatte
1888 · oil

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Painting depicting Niagara Falls with cascading white water, mist, rocky terrain, and a rainbow, rendered in blues, greens, and earth tones.
Frederic Edwin Church
Niagara Falls, from the American Side
1867 · oil

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