| Description: | A snow-covered mountain ridge extends across the background of the painting, above a slightly nearer purplish ridge on the left, and two nearer brownish ridges on the right. Nearer, a lake or wide river fills the center and right front, loosely reflecting the background ranges. It is early morning or late afternoon, with the sun coming from the elft, bathing the background, middle distance, and right foreground with a warm glow. In the middle distance, a canoe stands at the left bank of the river, containing two figures, one of which is standing, the other sitting, Nearer, the left bank is shadowed; there are four large, dark, conifers, grass, boulders at the water's edge, and a dead tree lying on one of the boulders. The right bank is forested in shades of brown and yellow; a boulder in the water protects a point on the right, gravel-covered bank. (From the painting, 17 December 1989.) |
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