Reading for Pleasure: Clearing The Land

Monday, February 6, 2012

Clearing The Land

This painting, Clearing The Land, is from the Hudson River School of Painting. The painting represents two men saddling horses up to a tree trunk to pry it out of the ground. There is nature in the background and the horses are different colors.

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