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Fox Hunt is widely viewed as Homer’s most haunting late "naturalist" painting. Rendered in a manner that suggests a close study of Japanese woodblock prints, it dramatically embodies the recurrent theme of conflict in nature.
The Fox Hunt is an 1893 oil on canvas painting by the American artist Winslow Homer. It depicts a fox running in deep snow, menaced by hungry crows. His largest single work, it has been described as "Homer's greatest Darwinian painting, arguably his greatest painting of any kind."
Homer was best known for his marine landscape paintings, and also for capturing the everyday life of the American people during times of war and leisure.
- American
- February 24, 1836
- Boston, Massachusetts
- September 29, 1910
- Snap the Whip. Date created: 1872. Dimensions: 56 × 91.4 centimeters (22 × 36 inches) Location: Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, United States.
- The Fog Warning. Date created: 1885. Dimensions: 76 × 122 centimeters (30 × 48 inches) Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, United States. The Fog Warning is one of many marine paintings that Winslow Homer produced while he was living in Maine in the 1880s.
- Prisoners from the Front. Date created: 1866. Dimensions: 61 × 96.5 centimeters (24 × 38 inches) Location: MET Museum, New York City, United States. Prisoners from the Front is one of the paintings by Winslow Homer that are related to the American Civil War (1861-1865).
- The Fox Hunt. Date created: 1893. Dimensions: 96.5 × 174 centimeters (38 × 68.5 inches) Location: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, United States.
Oct 14, 2023 · The Fox Hunt is an oil on canvas painting that was done in 1893 by Winslow Homer. The main character in the painting is a fox that is almost sinking in the thick snow of mid-winter. As such, the fox is seen struggling its way through the coast of New England looking for food.
A man of multiple talents, Homer excelled equally in the arts of illustration, oil painting, and watercolor. Many of his works—depictions of children at play and in school, farm girls attending to their work, hunters and their prey—have become classic images of 19th-century American life.
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The Fox Hunt is an 1893 oil on canvas painting by Winslow Homer. It depicts a fox running in deep snow, menaced by hungry crows. His largest single work, it has been described as "Homer's greatest Darwinian painting, arguably his greatest painting of any kind."...
