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Stormy Skies Over Harpers Ferry

A watercolor painting of Harpers Ferry at the confluence of two rivers, featuring a town with a stone church under a dramatic, dark, stormy sky while the foreground remains illuminated by sunlight.

Harpers Ferry on its point above the meeting of the Potomac and the Shenandoah on a summer afternoon as a thunderstorm builds, the stone church and old town still in sun against a black sky over the Blue Ridge, granulating ochre and indigo, watercolour running to all four edges, no paper margin or border, flat and square-on See more

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