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Maker(s):Homer, Winslow
Culture:American (1836-1910)
Title:Waiting for a Bite, from Harper's Weekly
Date Made:dated August 22, 1874
Type:Print
Materials:wood engraving on newspaper paper glued to board
Measurements:Sheet: 10 9/16 in x 15 7/8 in; 26.8 cm x 40.3 cm; Image: 9 1/16 in x 13 13/16 in; 23 cm x 35.1 cm
Accession Number:  AC 1973.77
Credit Line:Gift of Mrs. Frank L. Babbott
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
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Artists discovered an almost untouched wilderness in upstate New York beginning just after the turn of the eighteenth century. After the Civil War, Winslow Homer was among the artists who enjoyed hunting and fishing in the Adirondacks, as well as drawing and painting the inhabitants and the scenery, as in this scene of boys fishing. Between 1870 and his death in 1910, Homer traveled to the region more than twenty times. He spent much time in Minerva in the 1870s, where he drew Waiting for a Bite, reproduced as a wood engraving by Edward Lagarde for the popular magazine Harper’s Weekly.
Georgia Barnhill, 2014

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