Dialogue by Mark:

Meanwhile, back on the shore, let's check out an artist who was well known for his pictures of the sea, the American painter Winslow Homer.

Homer lived in the part of the United States known as New England. He was one of the first artists to make and sell watercolor paintings as well as traditional oil paintings. And he loved to paint the ocean. This picture is called "The Boat Builders." These two kids probably did build their toy boats themselves. This was the time of sailing ships. You can see ships out in the ocean behind the boys...one ship pretty close to shore and another far away on the horizon. The boys have made sails for their boats too. Maybe they're getting their boats ready for sailing in the little tidepool right behind them on the rocky beach. I bet they'll find some jellyfish washed into the pool, waiting for high tide to carry them out to sea again.

The Indianapolis Museum of Art sent this Imagination Station Masters' Gallery image.