![]() ![]() ![]() There are never too many memories of days past or too many dreams of good times to come”. Or pictures of you and Charlie with Old Duke and a limit of bobwhites, or a pair of muleys, or a half dozen Canadas, or about a yard of rainbows. Or glasses with pintails and canvasbacks and salmon and trout flies. Or bronzes of Labradors and pointers and Brittanies and setters. “There’s no such thing as too many paintings and prints. Apparently I have a good eye, for as it turns out, it may have been Homer’s favorite work too! It has been one of my very favorite Homer paintings for many years, and it was one of the very first header images that I ever used to help illustrate Through A Hunter’s Eyes. No doubt you have some questions of your own. Like so many great paintings, it begs more questions than it answers, and I for one want to know more. One look, and I am transported to a time gone by, drawn to and within it like a bloodhound to a hot scent. His “Hound and Hunter”, completed in 1892, is certainly a wonderful example of the master’s art. After all, what could go possibly go wrong?įew artists have ever been able to capture the mood and nuance of a sporting moment like Winslow Homer. Things are definitely going to happen when you put a boy, a dog, and a deer together, somewhere in the waters of the Adirondack Wilds, and no doubt that there is more to the story behind the makings of this scene. “The place suits me as if it was made for me by a kind of providence.” – Winslow Homer, Speaking of his love for Quebec – From Winslow Homer: 216 Colour Plates, by Maria Peitcheva “Winslow Homer was an American painter, illustrator and etcher, one of the two most admired American late 19th-century artists and is considered to be the greatest pictorial poet of outdoor life in the United States and its greatest watercolorist”. ![]()
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