Keywords: Hound and Hunter by Winslow Homer, 1892 2.jpg Artwork Creator Winslow Homer Homer ™s http //www nga gov/fcgi-bin/timage_f object 55582 image 13596 c homerwc watercolor sketch for Hound and Hunter showed lying behind the boy a rifle that the artist later painted out When this final canvas was exhibited in 1892 its subject was condemned as a cruel sport then practiced in the Adirondacks Some viewers believed the youth was drowning the deer to save ammunition The artist curtly responded The critics may think that that deer is alive but he is not ”otherwise the boat and man would be knocked high and dry 1892 oil canvas cm 71 8 122 3 Institution National Gallery of Art not on view http //www nga gov/fcgi-bin/tinfo_f object 33970 National Gallery of Art Washington D C object history Gift of Stephen C Clark credit line Provenance Consigned by the artist 1900-1902 to M Knoedler Co New York Louis Ettlinger 1845-1927 New York by 1908; by inheritance to his daughters Flora Ettlinger Whiting Mrs Giles Whiting 1880-1971 New York and Josephine Ettlinger McFadden Mrs William A McFadden d 1932 New York; Mrs Giles Whiting New York and her nephew Louis E McFadden Peekskill New York; Wildenstein Co New York ; sold 20 March 1946 to Stephen C Clark 1882-1960 New York; gift 1947 to NGA lower right Winslow Homer 1892 accession number 1947 11 1 File Hound and Hunter by Winslow Homer 1892 png PD-old-100-1923 DEFAULTSORT Winslow Homer - Hound and Hunter 1890s paintings by Winslow Homer Paintings by Winslow Homer in the National Gallery of Art Paintings by Winslow Homer in the National Gallery of Art Oil paintings by Winslow Homer Hunting in art 1892 paintings |