Eagle Lake Viewed from Cadillac Mountain, Mt. Desert Island, Maine
Classification
seascapes
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Gift of Louis P. Church
Accession Number
1917-4-324
About this artwork
Landscape sketch showing a view of the sun setting over Mt. Desert Island in Maine, looking west over Eagle Lake from the summit of Cadillac Mountain. The immediate foreground includes the nearby rocky and wooded slope, loosely rendered, with a barren tree at left, which descends to Eagle Lake, prominently featured at lower center. Bounded on all sides by heavily wooded hills and mountains, the lake brightly reflects the sun's light, which also casts a shadow of the nearby ridge on the lake's su...