Mink Lake, Adirondacks (1892): Art, History and Details
Mink Lake, Adirondacks at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1892, watercolor. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Mink Lake, Adirondacks (1892) 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:
Mink Pond was Homer’s favorite haunt in the Adirondacks. With a subtle range of smoky blue washes, the artist conveyed the grandeur of the mountains and a stormy sky towering above a diminutive canoe with a casting fisherman. Small breaks of brightness provide moments of relief in the monochromatic tonality of the whole.
Object facts
- Title: Mink Lake, Adirondacks
- Date: 1892
- Creator attribution: Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910)
- Culture: America
- Type: Drawing
- Technique: watercolor
- Collection: DR - American 19th Century
- Department: Drawings
- Accession number: 1954.833
Collection credit
Anonymous Gift
Further reading listed by the museum
- 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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See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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