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According to Mark Harden's Artchive:
"In this view of the unspoiled American forest, Kensett created a stark contrast between the solid mass of rocks and trees on the right and the light-filled, open sky on the left. This release into space from the compression of the mountainside, along with the atmospheric effects, evokes a sense of the sublime. Kensett's depiction of nature, with its weather and time-worn trees and lack of human presence, exemplifies the early nineteenth-century perception of the American wilderness as uncontaminated by civilization."