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Mt. Katahdin and Turner Mountain from Katahdin Lake, Maine
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Mt. Katahdin and Turner Mountain from Katahdin Lake, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · probably September 1877 · Oil and graphite on paperboard

From the collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Landscape sketch showing a view of Mt. Katahdin and Turner Mountain from the southeastern shore of Katahdin Lake. A semi-submerged rock is included in the immediate foreground at left. Another large boulder is positioned on the nearby shoreline at left, beside a pair of deciduous trees (likely birch). The lake's surface stretches into the middle distance, where the opposite shore is visible. Multiple mountains stretch across the terrain in the background: the pyramidal Katahdin (and Pamola) at left, Hamlin Ridge and Howe's Peaks at center, and the sharp, wooded summit of Turner Mountain at right. Above, the sun struggles to pierce a thick blanket of clouds, whose colors and forms, along with those of the mountains, are reflected in the subtly rippling water below.

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Credit lineMt. Katahdin and Turner Mountain from Katahdin Lake, Maine. probably September 1877. Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Gift of Louis P. Church. CC0.

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