Homer Ransford Watson
A Coming Storm in the Adirondacks
Artist
Homer Ransford Watson
Doon, Ontario, 1855 – Doon 1936
Title
A Coming Storm in the Adirondacks
Date
1879
Materials
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
85.7 x 118.3 cm
Credits
Gift of George Hague, inv. 1887.203
Collection
Quebec and Canadian Art
The monumental layout, the spectacular effect of dark clouds and sombre rocky cliffs, and the Romantic symbolism of skeletal dead trees make A Coming Storm in the Adirondacks an outstanding work in the Museum’s collection of 19th century landscapes. Still in his early twenties and basically self-taught, Watson painted this most impressive of his canvases after a stay in northern New York in 1876-1877.
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