North Woods Club, Adirondacks (The Interrupted Tete-a-Tete)

Museum record 113100: North Woods Club, Adirondacks (The Interrupted Tete-a-Tete) by Winslow Homer. A verified entry point for discovery.

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In numerous watercolors, Homer explored aspects of the controversy over deer hunting practices in the Adirondack region without overtly expressing his own opinion. In North Woods Club, Adirondacks (The Interrupted Tête-à-tête) , hunting is only hinted at in a subliminal way. Homer pictured two white-tailed deer, a doe and a buck, at the edge of a mountain meadow. Homer selected the exact moment when the deer become aware of another presence, the identity of whom is left to the viewer’s imagination. He ju…