Cape Trinity, Saguenay River, Moonlight

The massive cliffs at Cape Trinity on the Saguenay River, north of Quebec City, rise out of the water like a slowly waking monstrous creature. Winslow Homer remembered a moment of eeriness and awe from fishing trips there and chose to depict the site illuminated by silver moonlight. Homer finished this painting a few years before his death, and the stark color palette and attention to mysterious shadows create a sense of foreboding.