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John Frederick Kensett
American, 1816-1872

Camel's Hump from the Western Shore
of Lake Champlain, 1852
Oil on canvas

Gift of Virginia Carroll Crawford, 76.67

While studying aboard, John Fredrick Kensett
wrote that he longed to "get amid the scenery of
my own country, for it abounds with the picturesque,
the grand and the beautiful." Here, he portrayed the
rural beauty of the Green Mountains of Vermont.