# Leaping Trout, in 19th-century United States

Winslow Homer painted this in 1889, aged 53. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> In 1886, Winslow Homer began to produce oil paintings and watercolors of subjects in the Adirondack Mountains, where he and his brother Charles had fished and hunted since the 1870s. In Leaping Trout , a silvery trout propels itself from the water in pursuit of a hapless insect or a fisherman’s fly.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: 1889
- Medium: watercolor over graphite
- Dimensions: Sheet: 35 x 50.6 cm (13 3/4 x 19 15/16 in.)
- Type: Drawing
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1973.142
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Winslow Homer](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/winslow-homer), American, 1836–1910

Homer began as an illustrator, covering the Civil War for Harper’s Weekly, and first made his name in painting with scenes of soldiers and country life.

16 works in the collection.

## Walk on

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