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Bleak November
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View from shoreline towards two men in a canoe near Birch Point on Little Elkhart Lake. The day is overcast. Around the point is another man in a boat, and tipis on the far shore in the background. The lake is lined with trees and marshy areas.
1950
Vesey, Richard
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