Drawing, Mountain River or Lake, ca. 1895, Winslow Homer, circa 1895

Recto: horizontal view of a sloping hill with man, seen from behind, seated on two fallen pine tree trunks and also framed by two live pine trees in center foreground, before a vista filled by a mountain river (or lake) surrounded by hills covered with burned trees. Verso: patches of various colors. Date: circa 1895. Dimensions: Sheet: 35.5 x 53 cm (14 x 20 7/8 in.); ; Frame H x W x D: 60 x 75.6 cm (23 5/8 x 29 3/4 in.). Medium: black chalk, graphite, paper, wash, watercolor. Collection: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Drawing, Mountain River or Lake, ca. 1895 (CH 18178219)