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Autumn

Joseph Rubens Powell

National Gallery of Art

This painting shows a colorful landscape with a curving path leading across a hill and into the distance. Distant hills fade into a soft blue hue near the horizon. The path is lined with colorful vegetation in shades of orange, red, gold, light green, brown, and lavender. A dark-green and brown hill slopes up on the left, while the right contains a few tall trees. A person with a large, yellow pack walks away from us on the path, heading around the curve of the hill. The sky above is light gray with streaks of white and patches of pale blue.

Artwork Details

Medium
watercolor over graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
5055 × 3274 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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