Shooting the Rapids, Saguenay River 1905-10 Winslow Homer American Homer often enjoyed fishing trips in the wilderness of Quebec with his brother Charles. He based this unfinished painting on watercolors created during their last visit to Canada in 1902. Family tradition suggests that it records a perilous canoe journey down the Saguenay River and that Charles is the frightened passenger holding on to the gunwales. Homer only sketchily blocked in details such as the paddles, the foam above a concealed rock in the riverbed, and the guides facial features, marking his intended revisions in chalk. The artists family believed that he considered the painting complete in its essentials, and donated it to the Museum after his death.. Shooting the Rapids, Saguenay River. Winslow Homer (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1836-1910 Prouts Neck, Maine). American. 1905-10. Oil on canvas with chalk
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