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Mountain Landscape

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Tetrapylon, Palmyra, Syria
Four columns ruins with stone slabs in front.
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Sand Dune & Tree
A photograph of a landscape. The hues are saturated, with a bright orange-red sky, dark sand dunes framing a low horizon line, with a single tree in the center of the image.
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Mt. Williamson, Sierra Nevada, from Manzanar, California
This photograph depicts a flat, boulder-strewn valley leading up to a range of cloud-swept mountains in the distance. 
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Landscape

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Petit's Mobil Station, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Photograph of a gas station with a water tower in the background.
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Boat Wake
A photograph of ripples on the surface of a calm body of water. A circular pattern curves into the distance, a rocky wall visible in the background. The image is comprised of blue tones.
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The Reign of Antiquities

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Landscape of Quito
This horizontal format painting is done in shades of light and dark gray, cream and yellow. With abstracted forms it depicts jagged mountains sihouetted against a cloudy sky. In front of these mountains there are rolling hills and geometric forms that suggest a cityscape. In the foreground there are more mountain peaks.
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South Polar Quadrille

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Canyon Country at Dusk
This painting has an abstract composition in shades of red and black. There is a horizontal band across the top quarter of the canvas that is a lighter red compared to the lower portion of the canvas. The painting is signed in red paint (l.l.) "LA MORE".
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Illuminated Landscape
Nocturnal scene with landscape populated by otherworldly pink, green, and blue flora and fauna resembling marine life or celestial bodies.
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Sensations
Brightly-colored image of abstract shapes in hues of blue and red with white shapes giving the pieces a shining appearance.
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Canyon Country at Dusk

Accession Number
1972/2.378

Title
Canyon Country at Dusk

Artist(s)
Chet Harmon La More

Artist Nationality
American (North American)

Object Creation Date
1957

Medium & Support
oil on canvas

Dimensions
29 15/16 in x 35 15/16 in (76.1 cm x 91.2 cm);30 13/16 in x 36 13/16 in x 1 5/8 in (78.26 cm x 93.5 cm x 4.13 cm)

Credit Line
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Paul M. Vanek

Subject matter
This Surrealist painting is an abstract landscape of a canyon at dusk. 

Physical Description
This painting has an abstract composition in shades of red and black. There is a horizontal band across the top quarter of the canvas that is a lighter red compared to the lower portion of the canvas. The painting is signed in red paint (l.l.) "LA MORE".

Primary Object Classification
Painting

Primary Object Type
landscape

Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary

Rights
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Keywords
Abstract (fine arts style)
canyons
dusk
landscapes (representations)
modern and contemporary art

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