Adirondacks Guide
1892 · Watercolour with touches of gouache over graphite on paper · Art Institute of Chicago
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About this work
- Artist
- Winslow Homer (1836–1910)
- Year
- 1892
- Medium
- Watercolour with touches of gouache over graphite on paper
- Original size
- 32.9 × 54.5 cm
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Movement
- Realism
A white-bearded guide in a broad hat paddles a red canoe across grey water, his gear and the day's game piled in the bow, beneath a sky of torn grey and white cloud. Homer spent many summers at a hunting and fishing club in the Adirondack Mountains of New York, and the local guides who worked there became some of his favourite models. The watercolour is worked with blotting and scraping, so the paper itself makes the light on the water. It is in the Art Institute of Chicago.
This print reproduces the whole work, uncropped, from a high-resolution scan of the original. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A misty grey watercolour with one red canoe for a cabin, study or den, framed in dark wood. It suits charcoal, slate or warm white walls at 18×12 and pairs with Homer's The Blue Boat.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Realism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1892)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Mood
- calm
- Rooms
- study or library, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 18×12. Prints at 18×12 in — 18×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid.
Framing. The gallery ground is part of the print, so frame it without a mat — black suits the deep tones of this period; dark wood warms it.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.
