This engaging book is the first to look closely at Winslow Homer's avid pursuit of fly-fishing and at the inspiration that the sport provided for the art of this eminent American painter. The fly-fishing paintings are an immensely varied and little-understood aspect of his art.
It was fishing that led Homer to the Adirondacks in northern New York State, to Florida and to Quebec. At these favourite fishing spots, he worked in the traveller's medium of watercolour, stretching it ever more boldly and unconventionally in order to convey the intensity of his experience with nature; his response to light and atmosphere; and his feeling for the physical and psychological demands of his favourite sport.