The Fox Hunt
After Winslow Homer, 1893.
Oil on canvas. 38 x 68 1/2 inches.
Private collection, Gladwyne, Pennsylvania.

Winslow Homer dramatized the brutal realities of winter on the Maine coast by showing a fox desperately bounding through deep snow in an attempt to flee a flock of half-starved crows. The birds descend ominously with outstretched wings, forming a dark hovering mass above the struggling fox.