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Bodfish is a census-designated place (CDP) in the southern Kern River Valley of the Southern Sierra Nevada, in Kern County, California, United States. Bodfish is located 32 miles (51 km) east-northeast of Bakersfield, [5] at an elevation of 2,687 feet (819 m). [4] The population was 1,956 at the 2010 census, up from 1,823 at the 2000 census.
The Gulf Stream is an 1899 oil painting by the American artist Winslow Homer. [1] It shows a man in a small dismasted rudderless fishing boat struggling against the storm-tossed waves and perils of the sea, presumably near the Gulf Stream, and was the artist's statement on a theme that had interested him for more than a decade.
It has been said that they "are among the strongest expressions in all art of the power and dangerous beauty of the sea". [5] Northeaster shows the waves while the Northeaster blows. Northeasters are storms along the upper East Coast of the United States that derive their name from the direction of the wind as it rotates onto land.
She writes, "In reality, the offshore wave would break only at low tide, but the wave fills the inlet only at high tide." In his Winslow Homer in the 1890s: Prout's Neck Observed, Homer expert Philip Beam noted the artist's rearranging of the horizontal ledges of rock into a triangular shape so that "it rivets attention on his main motive". [1]
Bodfish, California – George H. Bodfish (early settler) Bodie, California – W.S. Bodey (prospector) Boerne, Texas – Louis Boerne (German writer) [73] Bolivar, 4 places in Missouri, Mississippi, New York, and Tennessee – Simón Bolivar [73] Bolton, Massachusetts – Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton [74] Bonaparte, Iowa – Napoleon ...
Gere shares Homer with his second ex-wife Carey Lowell, from whom he split in 2013. The actor also shares two younger sons — Alexander, 4, and a second child whose name hasn’t been announced ...
Homer Reciting His Poems is a 1790 history painting by the British artist Thomas Lawrence. It depicts the classical Greek poet Homer reciting his Iliad to a receptive audience. It was a rare venture into the genre for the artist, who went on to became known as the leading portrait painter of the Regency era .
Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836 – September 29, 1910) was an American landscape painter and illustrator, best known for his marine subjects.He is considered one of the foremost painters of 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in American art in general.