Indian Camp, Roberval, P.Q.
In 1895, Winslow Homer produced 25 watercolors while on a fishing expedition in Canada. Indian Camp, Roberval, P.Q. was painted at Lake St. John, about 100 miles north of Quebec and shows Montangnais Indians at Pont Bleue. Using straightforward visual material, Homer produced an unusual and arresting composition.
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Details
- Date
- 1895
- Dimensions
- sheet: height 0.354 m, width 0.506 m
- Origin
- America
- Department
- Drawings
- Holding institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Palette
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- Image provider
- cleveland-museum-of-art
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Art Genome Taxonomy
12 tags
Subject Matter
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Human Figure Visual · 99%
Several human figures are visibly distributed around the tents and boats and are central to the composition.
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Rural Life Both · 95%
The catalog identifies an Indian camp, while the image shows tents, open ground, vegetation, and outdoor activity in a non-urban setting.
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Modes of Transportation Visual · 97%
Multiple long boat-like forms occupy the lower foreground and middle ground.
Visual Qualities
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Earth Tones Visual · 96%
The palette is dominated by subdued gray, beige, brown, and green earth tones, with concentrated red accents.
Medium and Techniques
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Drawing Metadata · 99%
The Cleveland Museum of Art classifies the work as a drawing and identifies the medium as watercolor with gouache over graphite.
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Mixed-Media Metadata · 97%
The cataloged medium combines watercolor, gouache, and graphite, supporting a mixed-media designation.
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Watercolor Both · 99%
The catalog identifies watercolor as the principal medium, and the image visibly contains transparent, fluid washes across the sky, tents, ground, and boats.
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Work on Paper Both · 98%
The work is described as being executed on a measured sheet, and the image shows a rectangular paper support.
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Stains/Washes Both · 98%
Broad, uneven watercolor washes are clearly visible, and the cataloged watercolor medium supports this technique designation.
Time Periods
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19th Century Art Metadata · 99%
The museum dates the work to 1895, placing it within the nineteenth century.
Geographic Regions
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American Art Metadata · 98%
The artist is identified as American and the catalog lists the place of origin as America.
Cultural and Religious Styles
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Native American, First Nations, and Alaska Native Art Metadata · 86%
The catalog describes the depicted people as Montangnais Indians at Pont Bleue near Lake St. John; this tag refers to the catalog-described subject, not to the artist’s identity or stylistic lineage.
Source & rights
Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910). Indian Camp, Roberval, P.Q.. Cleveland Museum of Art.
High-resolution sources
- Original TIFF ↗ 5,348 × 3,796 · Cleveland Museum Of Art · Available