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Drawing, Fisherman in Quebec, Canada
This is a Drawing. It was created by Winslow Homer. It is dated 1895 and we acquired it in 1912. Its medium is brush and wash, gouache, charcoal on gray-green wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
A Busman’s Holiday
Winslow Homer and his brother Charles Savage Homer Jr. were avid fly-fishermen. They went on many fishing trips together in warm weather at the North Woods Club in the Adirondacks and at the exclusive Torelli Fish and Game Club in the province of Quebec, and during the winter months on the Saint John’s River, Florida. Fortunately, Homer was able to combine his avocation with his professional career as an artist. He was acutely aware that his watercolors of fishing-related subjects would be popular with a certain male clientele who were keen fishermen.
This beautiful watercolor, among the best of Cooper-Hewitt’s Homer works, shows an isolated fisherman, on the edge of Lake St. George in Canada, casting his rod and line with the expectation of catching a land-locked salmon native to this area, known as ouananiche. The work is among a small group of monochromatic watercolors that Homer executed fairly late in his artistic career between 1893 and 1902. By this time, Homer was an acknowledged master of the watercolor medium and had experimented with a variety of watercolor techniques. Working in monochrome created a new technical challenge of using a limited range of values from black to white to achieve the impression of different colors. The silvery stillness of this scene reaches the level of poetry, unlike anything else in Homer’s oeuvre.
This object was featured in our Object of the Week series in a post titled A Busman’s Holiday.
This object was
donated by
Charles Savage Homer, Jr..
It is credited Gift of Charles Savage Homer, Jr..
- Bag (USA)
- silk, glass beads.
- Gift of Mary S. M. Gibson.
- 1945-54-24
- Fishing motif Matchsafe
- silver, brass, copper.
- Gift of Stephen W. Brener and Carol B. Brener.
- 1980-14-488
- Fishing Basket Matchsafe
- brass.
- Gift of Stephen W. Brener and Carol B. Brener.
- 1978-146-162
Our curators have highlighted 2 objects that are related to this one.
- Print, The Fishing Party, from Appletons' Journal of Literature, Science and...
- wood engraving on off-white wove paper.
- Gift of Edith Wetmore.
- 1936-43-2
- Scenic, Les Vues d'Italie (Views of Italy)
- block-printed on joined sheets of handmade paper.
- Museum purchase from Sarah Cooper-Hewitt, Pauline Cooper Noyes, and General....
- 2000-29-1-a/mm
Its dimensions are
30.5 x 50.6 cm (12 x 19 15/16 in.)
It has the following markings
Stamped in ink, verso, center: Cooper Union Museum New York.
It is signed
Signed in brush and black wash, lower right corner: W. H.
Cite this object as
Drawing, Fisherman in Quebec, Canada; Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910); possibly USA; brush and wash, gouache, charcoal on gray-green wove paper; 30.5 x 50.6 cm (12 x 19 15/16 in.) ; Gift of Charles Savage Homer, Jr.; 1912-12-89
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibitions Hewitt Sisters Collect and The Cooper-Hewitt Collections: A Design Resource.
