Indians Making Canoes (Montagnais Indians)
Maker
Winslow Homer
(American, 1836-1910)
Collections
ClassificationsDRAWINGS
Date1895
Mediumwatercolor on paper
Dimensions14 × 20 in. (35.6 × 50.8 cm.)
frame: 24 1/2 × 31 × 1 7/8 in. (62.2 × 78.7 × 4.8 cm.)
SignedSigned in lower left of recto: Homer / Roberval 1895 / P Q
InscribedSigned in lower left of recto: Homer / Roberval 1895 / P Q
Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Gift of the Virginia Steele Scott Foundation
Label TextDuring the 1890s, Winslow Homer traveled extensively in the northern regions of the province of Quebec on fishing expeditions, led by Indigenous guides. There, he created a series of watercolors of Innu (Montagnais) camps showing women making birchbark canoes. Homer captured various stages of preparing and bending the bark, which, like the aqueous watercolor medium, is worked wet, to make it pliable around a wooden frame.Status
On viewObject number83.8.24
Charles Erskine Wood
ca. 1890
Object number: 85.44.38
