Tide Rip
Look at how those scratchy lines make the water look like it's boiling! Charles Herbert Woodbury uses frantic, energetic strokes to depict a 'tide rip,' that dangerous patch of choppy water near rocky shores where two tiny boats are bravely navigating. Woodbury was a famous marine painter who told his students to 'paint in nouns, not adjectives'—meaning focus on the big shapes—but this piece is full of wonderful, fussy details that capture the wild motion of the sea perfectly.
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