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Moat Mountain from Walker's Pond

Moat Mountain from Walker's Pond
Moat Mountain from Walker's Pond
Signed and dated lower right: B Champney./78
Label on frame: 30 x 20 Frost and Adams 33 + 35 Cornhill
30 x 25
Lent anonymously

Let us hope that the lumberman's axe will long spare these beautiful sylvan retreats; that the sun will not shine down with fervent heat upon a desolate and wasted region. --B Champney, 1894


Champney lived to see the forested mountains he loved endangered by the extensive logging that threatened to transform the region during the last quarter of the 19th century. Champney's paintings, unlike his words, never acknowledge this threat, perhaps because he continued to paint to some extent from earlier sketches in his studio.

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