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1st Art Gallery offers the option to receive your painting ready to hang or rolled in a tube.
Currently, for safety, we're able to ship framed paintings only up to a certain size. Once the maximum size is reached, the framing option is automatically disabled.
However, if you are interested in stretching or framing a painting larger than 24x36 inches (60x90 cm), please contact one of our customer success associates or let us know in your order notes. We will send you a catalog of our large framing styles and pricing options.
Unframed rolled canvas orders will arrive rolled inside a protective tube with an extra 1.5" white canvas on all sides so you can easily frame it locally.
Winslow Homer painted one of his most iconic pieces entitled Fox Hunt in 1893, while working in his studio in Prouts Neck, Maine, and is his largest painting. The artist exhibited this work in Philadelphia, at the annual art show of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the institute purchased the piece. This painting portrays a flock of crows circling a fox which struggles to run in the deep snow in search of food. The scene takes place on the New England coast in mid-winter – a difficult time for animals because the harsh weather makes food less easy to find. During this time in Maine, many flocks of starving crows will gather in numbers to prey on a weaker fox.
The artist used a real fox pelt, which he acquired from a hunter friend, over a barrel in the snow so he could observe the colors and details of the animal. Homer also found and sketched live crows, attracting them by scattering corn on the ground. Many art historians consider this artwork to be a “Darwinian” painting, for it speaks of survival in the wild. Some also speak of the possibility that Homer portrayed himself in Fox Hunt as the fox itself. The artist could have seen himself as the shy, aloof, shrewd fox running from imminent danger and fighting for survival. Homer’s signature on the bottom left corner of the canvas also suggests his identification with the fox, as it is positioned in the same way as the animal – as if it were sinking in the snow – as well as resembling the “R” to the shape of the fox’s tail.
In Fox Hunt, Homer used an unusual composition, placing the viewer in the middle of the action. The fox is in the forefront, creating a diagonal angle with the canvas and making the whole scene more dynamic. Its red-orange fur pops from the almost pure white snow, making it an easy target – different from the crows in the top right corner, which almost blend into the dark sky. The fox faces the ocean in the background, searching an escape route and creating a mysterious atmosphere about its “identity.” Some small branches grow out of the frozen ground, as well as some brown rocks in the distance.
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Important Notes About Your Painting:
If you have any request to alter your reproduction of Fox Hunt, you must email us after placing your order and we'll have an artist contact you. If you have another image of Fox Hunt that you would like the artist to work from, please include it as an attachment. Otherwise, we will reproduce the above image for you exactly as it is.
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Free shipping is included in the price of the painting. Once the painting is ready and dry enough to ship, we will roll it and ship it in a sturdy cardboard tube.
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