Famous Paintings of the Ocean

A LOOK AT

THE HISTORY OF THE MOST FAMOUS OCEAN PAINTINGS

THE OCEAN IN ART

Representing the ocean in all of its unique grandeur is a challenging endeavor for many artists, but the most proficient ocean painters have discovered methods to depict the water and its soaring waves.

PAINTING WATER

Some painters have found it most difficult to capture peaceful, motionless waters and their reflective properties, while others have attempted to portray the ocean in all its roaring grandeur. 

A LIST OF THE MOST FAMOUS OCEAN PAINTINGS

The Storm on the Sea of Galilee (1633)  by Rembrandt

The Monk by the Sea (1810)  by Caspar David Friedrich

The Raft of the Medusa (1819)  by Théodore Géricault

The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1831)  by Katsushika Hokusai

The Ninth Wave (1850)  by Ivan Aivazovsky

The Icebergs (1861)  by Frederic Edwin Church

Impression, Sunrise (1881)  by Claude Monet

Fisherman’s Wife Coming to Bathe Her Children (1881)  by Virginie Demont-Breton

The Gulf Stream (1899)  by Winslow Homer