Indian Camp, Roberval, P.Q. (1895): Art, History and Details

Indian Camp, Roberval, P.Q. (1895) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

In 1895, Winslow Homer produced 25 watercolors while on a fishing expedition in Canada. Indian Camp, Roberval, P.Q. was painted at Lake St. John, about 100 miles north of Quebec and shows Montangnais Indians at Pont Bleue. Using straightforward visual material, Homer produced an unusual and arresting composition.

Object facts

• Title: Indian Camp, Roberval, P.Q.
• Date: 1895
• Creator attribution: Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910)
• Culture: America
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: watercolor with gouache over graphite
• Dimensions: Sheet: 35.4 x 50.6 cm (13 15/16 x 19 15/16 in.)
• Collection: DR - American 19th Century
• Department: Drawings
• Accession number: 1943.70

Collection credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Burchfield, Louise. "A Water Color by Winslow Homer." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 30, no. 9 (November 1943): 139-140.
• Francis, Henry. "Recent Additions to the Collection of Homer." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 42, no. 3 (March 1955): 51-54.

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