During the 1880s, Winslow Homer vacationed in Florida, and the Caribbean, where he produced dazzling watercolors of people struggling with the sea & its creatures. Strong men here challenge the ocean's overwheming power; but in the end, the timeless ocean would survive. The strong, clever fishermen would die passing the task on to the next generation. (http://bjws.blogspot.nl/2016/07/gone-fishing-in-caribbean-winslow-homer.html)