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 exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. 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 12×18 and pairs with Homer's The Blue Boat.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Realism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1892)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- calm
- Rooms
- study or library, living room, dining room, dorm room, hallway or entryway
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 12×18. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.
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
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
