The painting is a landscape featuring a riverbank with tall, dark-green trees on the left side and distant blue hills in the background. The shore on the left is covered is tall yellow and green grass and dotted with pink and white flowers below the dark green trees. The water on the right is light blue, reflecting the blue sky and the thick white clouds.
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Palmer River

painter Edward Mitchell Bannister (American, c. 1828 - 1901)

1885

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 61.6 × 86.6 cm (24 1/4 × 34 1/8 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Purchased as the Gift of Gerald Spears
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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