Winslow Homer
American, 1836-1910
Adirondacks Guide
INV-1677
Winslow Homer
American, 1836-19101892
Adirondacks Guide
Winslow Homer American, 1836-1910 →watercolordrawings (visual works)
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.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
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.
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