Museum of Fine Arts 465 Huntington Avenue Boston Massachusetts 02115 Accession Number: 46.854
Date:
1879
Notes:
"American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston," Boston (Museum of Fine Arts), distributed by New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, Conn., 1969.
Williams, Hermann Warner, "Mirror to the American Past," Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society, 1973.
Troyen, Carol, et al., "American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue," Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, 1997, pg. 88.
"A New World Imagined: Art of the Americas," Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2010, fig. 144.
Summary:
Snow-covered winter landscape depicting a large group of men holding rifles in the foreground waiting their turn as a young man kneeling in front steadies his rifle on a sawhorse and aims out across a field. Beside him a man looks across the field using a telescope, and behind him a man is seated atop a barrel next to a dead turkey, while other men load their rifles. To the far right a man is seated on his horse while another man is seated in a horse-drawn sleigh, their attention directed out across the field. In the left foreground a dog steps up to investigate a dead turkey lying in the snow. In the far distance there is a snow-covered farmhouse.
