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What life-and-death struggle is shown in Winslow Homer’s The Fox Hunt?
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Winslow Homer
Breezing Up (A Fair Wind), oil on canvas by Winslow Homer, 1873–76; in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 61.5 × 97 cm.
In Winslow Homer’s 1893 painting The Fox Hunt, the life-and-death struggle depicts a fox that has ventured out onto snow-covered land to forage for berries, only to be pursued and attacked by a sinister line of starved black crows.1