Lake Squam from Red Hill  1874

by William Trost Richards

Among the earliest contributors to the annual exhibitions of the American Society of Painters in Water Color, the Philadelphian Richards contributed significantly to raising the profile of the medium in the United States. The artist successfully wedded topographical precision and authority of design to a marvelous sense of light and atmospheric breadth, creating small-scal...
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Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art