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" "A Good Shot, Adirondacks
A Good Shot, Adirondacks, 1892, watercolor on paper, Gift of Ruth K. Henschel in memory of her husband, Charles R. Henschel

These works celebrate the pleasures and beauty of life in the Adirondacks but also confront the more brutal realities of hunting. In one series, Homer depicted a practice called hounding, in which dogs were used to drive deer into a lake.


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