Adirondacks Guide
Winslow Homer · 1892 · Art Institute of Chicago
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Adirondacks Guide is a sensitive portrait of the guide Rufus Wallace, shown returning from duck hunting in his canoe. Although the background of lake and sky are only loosely suggested, the details of the old man’s face, beard, and still-strong body are carefully rendered with brushstrokes of diluted color. His gaze, forward and slightly elevated, is evocative; one senses that the old man is at once alert to nature and lost in his own contemplations.
The museum’s own description, in English. Licence: CC BY 4.0
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Details
- Maker
- Winslow Homer, American, 1836-1910
- Date
- 1892
- Medium
- Transparent watercolor with touches of opaque watercolor, rewetting, blotting and scraping, over traces of graphite, on thick, moderately textured, ivory wove paper (top edge trimmed)
- Dimensions
- 32.9 × 54.5 cm (13 × 21 1/2 in.)
- Place of origin
- United States
- Held by
- Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago · Not on view
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
Image: Art Institute of Chicago, CC0
