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A watercolor depicts a hunter standing on a fallen tree trunk in a forest landscape.

A watercolor depicts a young man standing on a fallen tree trunk in the middle of a forest as he looks into the distance. Dressed in dark clothing and a wide-brimmed hat, the young man carries a rifle over his left shoulder; a dead animal hangs by his side from his right hand. The fallen tree trunk is decaying: its exterior bark reflects the light, while the splintered interior is a red, earthen color. In the background, trees create a dense vertical pattern.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1939.230
People
Winslow Homer, American (Boston, MA 1836 - 1910 Prouts Neck, ME)
Title
Hunter in the Adirondacks
Other Titles
Former Title: Adirondacks
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1892
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307787

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor over graphite on white paper
Dimensions
35.2 x 50.7 cm (13 7/8 x 19 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: blue watercolor, l.r.: 1892/ HOMER
  • exhibition label: removed from reverse, paper: No. 132, Winslow Homer exhibition Apr 3-June 3 1973
  • inscription: verso, left edge, graphite: 40331

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Winslow Homer, sold [through Doll and Richards, Boston, 1892]; to Edward W. Hooper, Boston, 1892, bequest; to his brother-in-law Horace D. Chapin, Boston, circa 1911, gift; to his sister, Mrs. Robert B. Osgood, Boston, 1937, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1939

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Gift
Accession Year
1939
Object Number
1939.230
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • William Howe Downes, The Life and Works of Winslow Homer, Houghton Mifflin Company (Boston, MA and New York, NY, 1911), reproduced opposite p. 198
  • Copley Society, Copley Society Catalogue of Paintings in Water Color by Winslow Homer, John S. Sargent, Dodge MacKnight, exh. cat. (Boston, MA, 1921), cat. 30
  • Theodore Bolton, "Water Colors by Homer: Critique and Catalogue", Fine Arts (formerly known as The Antiquarian) (April 1932), pp. 16-20+, pg. 52
  • Charles R. Henschel, Winslow Homer 1836-1910: Loan Exhibition of Water Colours Commemorating the Centenary of His Birth, exh. cat., M. Knoedler & Co. (New York, 1936), cat. 7
  • Homer Saint-Gaudens, Centenary Exhibition of Works of Winslow Homer, exh. cat., Carnegie Institute (Pittsburgh, PA, 1937), cat. 98
  • "A Gift of Paintings by Winslow Homer", Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, March 1940), vol. IX, no. 2, pp. 34-35, repr. p. 35
  • Lloyd Goodrich, Winslow Homer, MacMillan (New York, NY, 1944), repro. 32 of pl.
  • Winslow Homer, exh. cat., Worcester Art Museum (Worcester, MA, 1944), no. 38
  • Lloyd Goodrich, American Watercolor and Winslow Homer, exh. cat., Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN, 1945), p. 106, no. 40
  • American Painting from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day, exh. cat., Tate Britain (London, 1946), cat. 104
  • "Winslow Homer", American Artist (October 1959), pp. 44-45, 47, p. 44, ill p. 45
  • Lloyd Goodrich, Winslow Homer, George Braziller, Inc. (New York, NY, 1959), reproduced, no. 66
  • James Whitney Fosburgh, Winslow Homer in the Adirondacks, exh. cat., Adirondack Museum (Blue Mountain Lake, NY, 1959), 74, fig. 46
  • Albert Ten Eyck Gardner, Winslow Homer, American Artist: His World and His Work, C. N. Potter (New York, NY, 1961), p. 248, reproduced p. 145
  • Philip C. Beam, Winslow Homer at Prout's Neck, Little, Brown & Company (Boston, MA, 1966)
  • Mathew Baigell, A History of American Painting, Praeger (New York, 1971), p. 163, fig. 8-12, p. 278
  • Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 105, ill.
  • Lloyd Goodrich, Winslow Homer, exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY, 1973)
  • Donelson F. Hoopes, American Watercolor Painting, Watson-Guptill Publications (New York, NY, 1977), pp. 61, 105, pl. 9
  • Marjorie B. Cohn, Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1977), pp. 14, 26, 48, 54, 69, 97-98, cat. 23, pl. 5
  • Gordon Hendricks, The Life and Work of Winslow Homer, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1979), CL-259, p. 297
  • Paul Schaefer, "The Making of a Wilderness", The Conservationist, The Conservationist (May 1985 - June 1985), vol. 39, no. 6, pp. 44-49, p. 47
  • Helen A. Cooper, Winslow Homer Watercolors, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art/Yale University Press (Washington, D.C. and New Haven, CT, 1986), pp. 169, 252; reproduced in color fig. 151
  • David Tatham, "Trapper, Hunter and Woodsman: Winslow Homer's Adirondack Figures", American Art Journal (Winter 1990), XXII, no. 4, pp. 40-67, p. 58, reproduced p. 56, fig. 15
  • Todd Wilkinson, "Winslow Homer: The Essence of Wildlife Art", Wildlife Art News (May-June 1990), pp. 64-71., pp. 64-71, reproduced p. 66
  • Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Winslow Homer Watercolors, Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc. (New York, NY, 1991), reproduced in color, plate 61
  • Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr. and Franklin Kelly, Winslow Homer, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art/Yale University Press (Washington, D.C.; New Haven, CT and London, England, 1995), pp. 275-276, catalogue no. 178, reproduced
  • David Tatham, Winslow Homer in the Adirondacks, Syracuse University Press (Syracuse, NY, 1996), pp. 92, 141
  • Miles Unger, The Watercolors of Winslow Homer, W. W. Norton & Company (New York, 2001), pp. 140, 144, 152, 220, repro. 150-51
  • Marjorie B. Cohn, "Cause and Effect in the Historical Development of Watercolor", The Broad Spectrum: Studies in the Materials, Techniques, and Conservation..., ed. Harriet K. Stratis, Archetype Publications (London, England, 2002), pp. 62-68, fig. 2.4 (color), p. 65
  • John Wilmerding, American Art in the Princeton University Art Museum, Volume I: Drawings and Watercolors, Princeton University Art Museum (New Haven and London, 2004), pg. 246, fn. 2
  • Lloyd Goodrich and Abigail Booth Gerdts, Record of Works by Winslow Homer, Spanierman Gallery (New York, 2005-2014), vol. 5, p. 108, no. 1477, repr. p. 109, repr. in color p. 390
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., American Watercolors and Pastels 1875-1950 at the Fogg Art Museum, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2006), checklist
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 171-72, cat. no. 131, reproduced in color, p. 172
  • Stephan Wolohojian and Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard Art Museum/ Handbook, ed. Stephan Wolohojian, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, 2008), ill. p. 159
  • Gabrielle Townsend, Winslow Homer: Aquarelles, Bibliothèque de l'Image (Paris, France, 2011), repr. p. 73
  • Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), repr. as fig. 2 on p. 57
  • Penley Knipe and Miriam Stewart, Material Matters (A Watercolor Treasury, Support, Reserve, Opacity, Intervention, Resist, Impermanence), American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, ed. Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, Yale University Press (Cambridge, MA, 2023), Pages 40-67, Figure 2, Page 57

Exhibition History

  • Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Winslow Homer, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 02/08/1911 - 03/08/1911
  • Paintings in Water Color by Winslow Homer, John S. Sargent, Dodge MacKnight, Copley Society of Boston, 03/05/1921 - 03/22/1921
  • Water Colors by Winslow Homer, 1836 - 1910, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/16/1932 - 06/15/1932
  • Winslow Homer, 1836 - 1910: Loan Exhibition of Watercolors Commemorating the Centenary of his Birth, Knoedler & Co. Inc., New York, 01/20/1936 - 02/08/1936
  • Centenary Exhibition of Works of Winslow Homer, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 01/28/1937 - 03/07/1937
  • A History of American Watercolor Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 01/27/1942 - 02/25/1942
  • Watercolors by Winslow Homer, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/09/1944 - 11/01/1944
  • Winslow Homer, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, 11/16/1944 - 12/17/1944
  • American Watercolor and Winslow Homer, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 02/27/1945 - 03/23/1945; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 04/03/1945 - 05/01/1945; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, 05/15/1945 - 06/12/1945
  • American Painting from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day, Tate Britain, London, 06/01/1946 - 07/01/1946
  • American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
  • Winslow Homer, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 04/03/1973 - 06/24/1973
  • Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/12/1977 - 06/22/1977
  • Winslow Homer Watercolors, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 03/02/1986 - 05/11/1986; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, 06/06/1986 - 07/27/1986; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 09/11/1986 - 11/02/1986
  • Winslow Homer, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 06/17/1996 - 09/22/1996
  • American Watercolors and Pastels, 1875-1950, at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/2006 - 06/25/2006
  • Winslow Homer: Eyewitness, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/31/2019 - 01/05/2020

Subjects and Contexts

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