Winslow Homer's fishermen and their women are…

1891 CE

Winslow Homer's fishermen and their women are heroic in their confrontations with the physical world, but the artist occasionally takes a more jaundiced view of his fellowman.

A Huntsman and Dogs (1891; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania), set in a cheerless autumnal landscape with a sullen-faced young hunter, pausing on a hillside leveled by timbering and blackened by fire, epitomizes man as a despoiler of nature, killing for trophies rather than food.

The monumental narrative paintings he has produced in his Maine studio from the mid-1880s lack the freshness of his earlier works, but Homer simultaneously paints innumerable brilliantly colored watercolors during his travels north to Canada and south to the Caribbean.

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Winslow Homer: A Huntsman and Dogs (1891); oil on canvas 71.4 cm (28.1 ″) x 121.9 cm (47.9 ″) Philadelphia Museum of Art

Winslow Homer: A Huntsman and Dogs (1891); oil on canvas 71.4 cm (28.1 ″) x 121.9 cm (47.9 ″) Philadelphia Museum of Art

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Prouts Neck Cumberland Maine United States View →

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Western Art: Post-Impressionist and Neo-Impressionism View →

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