Homer’s 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. ”. Object Type: painting. Date: 1892. Place of creation: United States of America. Dimensions: height: 71.8 cm (28.2 in); width: 122.3 cm (48.1 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: National Gallery of Art. Hound and Hunter by Winslow Homer, 1892 2
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