Cape Trinity, Saguenay River, Moonlight
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.Among the most allusive and foreboding of Homer’s late paintings, this moonlit scene was completed a few years before his death. Its brooding, starkly monochromatic composition reveals a symbolist approach to an actual landscape: a dramatic outcropping of rocks in three plateaus (cap Trinité) on the Saguenay River, north of Quebec City. One critic remarked on the picture’s “remote and even fantastic effect . . . whether intended or not." Inspired by memories of Canadian fishing trips Homer had been taking with his brother Charles since 1893, the somber subject, visualized as a near-abstraction, carries striking psychological weight as an end-of-life expression.
Artwork Details
- Title: Cape Trinity, Saguenay River, Moonlight
- Artist: Winslow Homer (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1836–1910 Prouts Neck, Maine)
- Date: 1904
- Culture: American
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 28 1/2 x 48 in. (72.4 x 121.9 cm)
Framed: 41 x 61 in. (104.1 x 154.9 cm) - Credit Line: Myron Kunin Collection of American Art, Minneapolis (1986.05.19.1)
- Rights and Reproduction: Midwest Art Conservation Center
- Curatorial Department: The American Wing