Inadvertent Homage to Winslow Homer

The National Gallery of Art has a fun daily art-related game called Artle, in which you get four guesses to identify the artist behind the day’s selection of art pieces. One of today’s paintings – by Winslow Homer – looked kinda familiar to me. I opened up my collection of tintypes and found this one I made during a weekend excursion to Cape Elizabeth, Maine, back in 2013:

Mark Dawson, tintype, Cape Elizabeth, Maine, 2013

Here they are, side by side:

To be clear: While Homer made his painting about 130 years ago, I only saw it for the first time today, roughly 11 years after I made my tintype. I was not copying his painting! :-)

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