Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: The Trapper
|
Collection:
|
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
|
|
Preferred Title:
|
The Trapper
|
|
Image View:
|
Detail, figure and canoe and the jack light leaning against a log
|
|
Creator:
|
Winslow Homer (American painter, 1836-1910)
|
|
Location:
|
repository: Colby College Museum of Art (Waterville, Maine, United States) 1949.002
|
|
Location Note:
|
5600 Mayflower Hill
|
|
GPS:
|
+44.565-69.660833
|
|
Date:
|
1870 (creation)
|
|
Cultural Context:
|
American
|
|
Style Period:
|
Nineteenth century
|
|
Work Type 1:
|
painting (visual work)
|
|
Classification:
|
Paintings
|
|
Material:
|
oil paint on canvas
|
|
Technique:
|
oil painting (technique)
|
|
Measurements:
|
48.47 cm (height) x 74.93 cm (width)
|
|
Subjects:
|
genre; landscape; seascape; trapping; hunting
|
|
Description:
|
Homer made many trips to the Adirondacks between 1870 and 1910, although he did little work there after 1900. The Trapper was painted on his first trip. It depicts a man, the trapper, standing on the trunk of a tree that has fallen into the water. Beyond him are islands, the pond, and the opposite shoreline. Placed at a slight angle in the canoe is a jack light which, when a candle or lantern was lighted in the receptacle on the pole at night, would be used to startle deer. (Source: Colby Museum of Art [website]; http://www.colby.edu/museum/)
|
|
Collection:
|
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
|
|
Identifier:
|
7A1-HOMER-CA-TT-A02
|
|
Rights:
|
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
|