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The Gulf Stream is an 1899 oil on canvas by Winslow Homer. The painting shows a man in a small boat struggling against the waves of the sea. Homer vacationed often in Florida, Cuba and the Caribbean. This painting alludes to John Singleton Copley's 1778 composition, Watson and the Shark (see lower right).
In American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America, Robert Hughes contrasts these two pictures. First, Copley's shark jaw is alien in form and most likely drawn from second-hand accounts....
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