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Winslow Homer, The Angler (Casting in the Falls), ca. 1874. Oil on canvas, 23 3/8 × 17 1/8 in. (59.5 × 43.5 cm). Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Promised gift of Bernard and Barbro Osher
A lifelong hunter and fisherman, Winslow Homer painted numerous angling themes over the course of forty years, making more than twenty visits to the Adirondack Mountains—a place where he could study nature in its various expressions, both as an artist and as a fisherman. Homer’s reverence for nature shaped a body of work that has come to define the Adirondacks and the image of fishing in American art.
In The Angler (Casting in the Falls), Homer’s subject has been tentatively identified as
his friend and fellow artist-angler Roswell Morse Shurtleff, who is confidently fly-fishing in the rapids of a forceful stream. Homer’s attention to detail is evidenced by the tension in Shurtleff’s rod and the gaping tug of the buttons on his jacket as he bends his casting arm backward.
Lauren Palmor
Associate Curator, American Art
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
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