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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 concluded the watercolor painting entitled Old Friends in 1894. He was about fifty-eight-years old, and this was the mature period of his artistic career. Many decades before this, Homer stopped working with commercial illustration to dedicate himself to oil and watercolor painting – but still took his traits as an illustrator with him. After many trips to tropical locations, the artist mastered the craft of watercolor painting, working on different landscapes. Homer’s approach to watercolors varied from realism to a more modern and Impressionistic style.
In fact, Homer already painted outdoors before meeting artists from the Impressionist movement – as they also worked like this, but named it working en plein air. Just as the French painters, he was concerned with observing the natural sunlight upon a landscape. By watching the same scene in various weather conditions and during different times of the day, Homer captured the essence of what he saw with light and color. Working with watercolor enabled him to experiment during his travels, and on some occasions, he used the watercolors to create a finished oil painting in his studio.
It was only a few years after Homer painted Old Friends that his financial situation became more stable. Many museums were interested in purchasing his artwork, and he was able to charge a good, fair price for his paintings. Homer and the Impressionists also shared their love for nature. Landscape painting came naturally to the American artist, but he featured the human figure in many of his paintings as well. Only during the end of his career, would the painter focus on the magnitude of nature itself, without the narrative implied by the human figure – depicting mostly powerful seascapes.
In Old Friends, Homer portrays a man with a long, gray beard – possibly a mountain guide – looking up at a towering tree. He raises his hand to touch the trunk, which size indicates the tree is as old as the man. Homer contrasts the forefront from the background with a simple use of color combinations. The central figures, meaning the man, the large tree, and the fallen leaves on the floor, were painted in warm shades of brown, orange, and red. While the smaller trees in the background are in cool shades of blue, green, and ochre.
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Important Notes About Your Painting:
If you have any request to alter your reproduction of Old Friends, you must email us after placing your order and we'll have an artist contact you. If you have another image of Old Friends 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.
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