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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Pencil sketch of a two-masted schooner with a dinghy on calm water, with faint distant sailboats in the upper right.

Schooner with Dinghy

Winslow Homer, 1880

Pencil sketch of rocky cliffs and headlands on tan paper, labeled Great Island.

Coastline Cliffs of Great Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Blue sheet with white chalk strokes showing waves, foam and a seagull in flight over the sea.

Seagull and Waves

Winslow Homer, 1900

Pencil sketch of a dory crowded with men, with loose lines suggesting waves and water below the boat.

Dory Filled with Men

Winslow Homer, 1880

Pencil sketch of icebergs above a horizon line on tan paper, with white highlights suggesting ice, by Frederic Edwin Church.

Icebergs, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of a diver plunging head first among rocks and seaweed, legs raised, on a pale sheet of paper.

Conch Divers

Winslow Homer, 1880

Wood engraving of a couple by the moonlit sea above a meadow scene with reclining figures, a girl, and ducks.

Flirting on the Sea-Shore and on the Meadow

Winslow Homer, 1870

Engraving of holidaymakers on a rocky seashore with children in tide pools, women with parasols, and sailboats offshore.

August in the Country - The Sea-Shore

Winslow Homer, 1850

Wood engraving of a ship under construction in Gloucester Harbor, with workers on scaffolding and children playing with toy b

Ship-Building, Gloucester Harbor, from Harper's Weekly, October 11, 1873, p. 900

Winslow Homer, 1870

Sailors struggle with a heavy canvas sail on a snowy deck while rigging and a mast rise into a stormy sky.

Winter at Sea - Taking in Sail off the Coast

Winslow Homer, 1860