North Woods Club, Adirondacks (The Interrupted Tete-a-Tete)
Winslow Homer
1892
Medium
Watercolor, with rewetting, blotting and scraping, over graphite, on thick, moderately textured, ivory wove paper
Dimensions
38 × 54.5 cm (15 × 21 1/2 in.)
Classification
drawings (visual works)
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
113100
About the Artist
Winslow Homer · 1836–1910
Winslow Homer (1836-1910) was one of America's greatest painters and a preeminent figure in 19th-century American art. Largely self-taught, Homer began his career as a commercial illustrator and Civil War correspondent for Harper's Weekly before becoming renowned for his powerful marine subjects and landscape paintings. His mastery of both oil and watercolor, combined with his uncompromising reali...