From the Mid-Country Highway by James Emery Powell

The location of this painting isn't clear: there's no identifiable "mid-country" highway in Maryland and doesn't seem to fit the landscape. Here, we look at hilly terrain under a cloudy sky that have rendered the mountaintops very dark. A driveway in the foreground leads to a road, whose unpaved status either renders Powell's title somewhat ironic or implies that we are looking from a newer road upon this simpler tableau. A farm and fields is visible in the midground, and another further in the distance. The colors here are all muted fall earthtones, no blazing foliage.