The Fox Hunt 1893
by Winslow Homer
"Fox Hunt" was Homer's largest painting to date, and of a size appropriate for the depiction of survival and its casualties. He dramatized the brutal realities of winter on the Maine coast by showing a fox desperately bounding through deep snow in an attempt to flee a flock of half-starved crows.
Read more... [PAFA]- Size:
- 38 x 68 1/2 in. (96.5 x 174.0 cm.)
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Credit:
- This photographic reproduction is in the public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
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