Gordon, Benjamin T. (1878-1940) "The Lake"

Gordon, Benjamin T. (1878-1940) "The Lake"

In the foreground, trees bent through years of snow; behind them an alpine lake and glaciered mountain under cerulean skies. Much of this painting is based upon a pair of complementary colors, played out in different juxtapositions. In subject matter (the mountains) and its color palette it resembles other works of this period, all of them perhaps owing a debt to Maxfield Parrish.

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