A Good Shot, Adirondacks
1892 National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
This watercolor depicts a buck deer standing on a rock in a stream, with dark, moody forest surroundings. It is a prominent example of Winslow Homer's mature watercolor practice in the Adirondack Mountains.
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Winslow Homer spent many summers in the Adirondacks, where he became an avid sportsman and observer of the wilderness. This particular work captures the tension of a hunting scene, a common theme in his Adirondack series that reflects the rugged intersection of man and nature in the late 19th-century American landscape.
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A Good Shot, Adirondacks
Winslow Homer, 1892
