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Leaping Trout, 1889. In 1886 Homer and his brother Charles were among a group of 20 charter members of the North Woods Club, a private hunting and fishing preserve along the shore of Mink Lake in upstate New York. Homer produced oils and watercolours of Adirondack subjects, and this drawing belongs to a series depicting leaping trout. Although scenes of trout fishing were common in English and American art of the period, Homer dramatically reconfigured the genre by adopting the viewpoint of a fish, thus intensifying the visual and emotional drama of the scene.