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Drawing, Valley and Hillside
This is a Drawing. It was created by Winslow Homer. It is dated 1889 and we acquired it in 1912. Its medium is brush and watercolor, graphite on off-white wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
In contrast to the pristine world of Landscape with Deer in a Morning Haze (hanging on opposite wall), this autumn scene betrays a far less benign mood. In the under-drawing, Homer painted a woodsman in the right foreground with an axe-like implement over his shoulder, which he later painted out, and which probably alluded to the late nineteenth-century public debate over the logging industry’s destruction of the Adirondack woods and watershed. According to one writer in Harper’s Weekly, “The work is done, not by settlers, but by speculators, and when it is completed, its scene will be a rocky desert.” It was only when NewYork State commerce was threatened by the low water levels of the Erie Canal and the Hudson River, New York’s main transportation corridor, that conservationists gained enough muscle to convince the state legislature to establish the Adirondack Forest Preserve in 1885, leading to the creation of Adirondack Park in 1892.
Wall Label from exhibition, "Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape," Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, NY.
This object was
donated by
Charles Savage Homer, Jr..
It is credited Gift of Charles Savage Homer, Jr..
- Drawing, Tree Roots on a Hillside, Prout's Neck
- charcoal, brush and white gouache on laid paper.
- Gift of Charles Savage Homer, Jr..
- 1912-12-91
Its dimensions are
35.6 × 50.8 cm (14 × 20 in.)
Cite this object as
Drawing, Valley and Hillside; Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910); USA; brush and watercolor, graphite on off-white wove paper; 35.6 × 50.8 cm (14 × 20 in.); Gift of Charles Savage Homer, Jr.; 1912-12-185
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Frederic Church, Winslow Homer & Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape.
