Adirondacks Guide
Winslow Homer · 1892 · Transparent watercolor with touches of opaque watercolor, rewetting, blotting and scraping, over traces of graphite, on thick, moderately textured, ivory wove paper (top edge trimm
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Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Adirondacks Guide is a public-domain drawing by Winslow Homer, dated 1892. Transparent watercolor with touches of opaque watercolor, rewetting, blotting and scraping, over traces of graphite, on thick, moderately textured, ivory wove paper (top edge trimm. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Adirondacks Guide” (1892) is observed weather, sea, or work. Homer started as an illustrator and later painted the water with very little idealizing.
About the artist
Winslow Homer (1836–1910) was an American painter of the sea, rural work, and the Civil War. He started as an illustrator and later painted the Maine coast in blunt, observed weather.
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