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1st Art Gallery offers the option to receive your painting ready to hang or rolled in a tube.
Currently, for safety, we're able to ship framed paintings only up to a certain size. Once the maximum size is reached, the framing option is automatically disabled.
However, if you are interested in stretching or framing a painting larger than 24x36 inches (60x90 cm), please contact one of our customer success associates or let us know in your order notes. We will send you a catalog of our large framing styles and pricing options.
Unframed rolled canvas orders will arrive rolled inside a protective tube with an extra 1.5" white canvas on all sides so you can easily frame it locally.
Winslow Homer painted the seascape entitled Glass Windows, Bahamas in 1885. The painter was hired to produce a series of artworks of the port city, Nassau, in the Bahamas. The Century Magazine wanted Homer to illustrate an article about the location called “A Midwinter Resort.” During this period, the area didn’t receive more the one hundred and fifty visitors for the summer and began to grab the attention of North Americans that had health problems because of the cold climates of their hometowns.
The artist stayed about two months in the Bahamas and produced over thirty paintings. Deeply inspired by his surroundings, Homer portrayed the architecture, coral and sponge fishing, the vegetation of the area, as well as the unique and unusual features of the landscape, like seen in Glass Windows, Bahamas. Using graphite and watercolor on paper, the artist captured a beautiful and unlikely rock formation. The color palette beautifully blends warm and cool tonalities – contrasting the hot sun on the stones and the cold water of the sea.
In the forefront, a rock formation creates an angle on the right side of the canvas in shades of ochre, red-brown, and gray. To the left, a large structure covered in a brown shadow holds another rock, forming an arch of stone in simple shades of light gray and ochre. The ocean starts in a deep, dark blue, getting brighter as it gets closer to the horizon, and a white sailboat can be seen in the distance. The sky is light blue with many white clouds, and the artist matched the shades with the ones featured on the arch as if they could almost blend into one another.
Homer was creative with the title, as he interpreted this rock formation like an open window to a beautiful view. His technique is very precise and realistic, using the graphite to accentuate the shadows and give a convincing texture to the rocks. Originally a commercial illustrator, Homer eventually stopped working as a freelancer and dedicated himself to watercolor painting, which he became very passionate about his art. The painter quickly mastered this difficult medium and found a new path in his artistic career, working less with commercial work and following his passion as a true artist.
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If you have any request to alter your reproduction of Glass Windows, Bahamas, you must email us after placing your order and we'll have an artist contact you. If you have another image of Glass Windows, Bahamas that you would like the artist to work from, please include it as an attachment. Otherwise, we will reproduce the above image for you exactly as it is.
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Free shipping is included in the price of the painting. Once the painting is ready and dry enough to ship, we will roll it and ship it in a sturdy cardboard tube.
We always ship express via courier to ensure your order reaches you as soon as possible - normally within three business days. The total delivery time from the moment you place your order until the package is delivered to your door is normally between three to four weeks.
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Depending on the degree of damage to the warranted painting, it will either be repaired or replaced. This warranty service is provided free of charge.
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You may choose to purchase your painting framed, in which case, it will arrive "ready to hang". We offer more than 20 beautiful models, all hand finished and expertly assembled by our experienced framers.
Note that for safety reasons we can only frame up to a certain size. Once the maximum size is reached the framing option is automatically disabled.
If you are planning to frame your painting yourself, use an existing frame, or frame it locally, you may choose to order your painting with a stretching service, meaning that it will arrive mounted on wooden bars.
If you're considering not framing your painting at all, you may opt for a Gallery Wrap. The term Gallery Wrap refers to the way the canvas is stretched, which is by wrapping it around thick stretcher bars, about 1.5 inch thick, with the canvas being secured to the back rather than the sides of those bars.
All orders ship with UPS, FedEx or DHL and will arrive directly to your home or office. A tracking number will be emailed to you as soon as the order leaves our studio so you can track it online. All orders ship express and usually arrive within 4-5 days from the shipping date. Due to shipping restraints, many of our framed, stretched, and oversize paintings may take 6-21 days for arrival depending on the safest route determined by the postal service.
Unframed paintings are covered with a special protective film, are gently rolled and then placed inside a strong specially designed tube.
Stretched, Gallery Wrapped and Framed paintings are covered with protective bubble wrap, separated by foam board and then carefully put into the cardboard box.