Coloring The Landscape

From January 22, 2016 through April 10, 2016, The Workshop featured an installation titled Coloring the Landscape, in which visitors explored the power of color to establish a mood, define a place, direct your eye, and convey a message.

We transformed one of our most iconic landscape paintings, Winslow Homer’s Weatherbeaten, into a coloring book page, and asked visitors to test out the implications of color for themselves. Adults and children alike created almost 2,000 versions of this painting.

More than 200 of these were framed and hung on the back wall of the gallery so that visitors could see how the image morphed as it moved from sunny seaside to soft monochrome, fiery sunset to Pop-art pink and teal.