The Bridle Path, White Mountains
1868 Clark Art Institute
About this artwork
This oil painting depicts a young woman riding a white horse along a rugged, rocky mountain trail, with distant landscape views in the background. It is a signature example of Homer's work during his early career.
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Winslow Homer traveled to the White Mountains in New Hampshire during the summer of 1868 to create this work, which captured the growing popularity of mountain tourism in the post-Civil War era. The painting is notable for its deliberate compositional balance between the solid, monumental figures of the horse and rider and the atmospheric, hazy expanse of the distant mountain range.
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The Bridle Path, White Mountains
Winslow Homer, 1868
