# Hill and Marshland

- By: Max Weyl (born Muhlen-on-Neckar, Germany 1837-died Washington, DC 1914)
- Date: n.d.
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: 8 1/4 x 16 1/4 in. (20.8 x 41.3 cm)
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Laura Dreyfus Barney and Natalie Clifford Barney in memory of their mother, Alice Pike Barney
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=27596)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/70ba3e4060643ad6e7fe833d46af8514.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Max Weyl painted many images that emphasized the beauty of the landscape around Washington, D.C. Hill and Marshland appears to show an area along the banks of the Potomac River, which runs from West Virginia through the Appalachian Mountains to the Chesapeake Bay. The warm tones of green and brown emphasize the rich marshland vegetation, and the thick brushstrokes evoke the soft, damp earth.