For my research paper, I chose John Frederick Kensett's Lake George, which is a landscape painting which was painted in 1869. The foreground of this painting shows a close up of the lake shore. Some rocks and a fallen tree trunk or branch is shown in the right hand corner of the painting. The foreground is very dense and uses darker browns and green hues. These colors are used to show a murkiness associated with the beginning of the water and the end of the land shore.

The middle ground of this work is the lake itself with a couple small islands. Some islands may have been omitted from the painting by Kensett the show more of the lake itself from his vantage point. Again, the water is shown as being murky with a brownish hue. The artist does a good job of showing the reflection of the islands on the water. The water in the middle of the painting isn't as murky as the water on either side of it, shown with a little blue and some white coloring. It must have been a bit......

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Title: Lake George
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