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"Tropical Country," by Gifford Beal, oil on canvas, 1941. Gifford Beal was a successful painter, watercolorist, printmaker, and muralist who was especially influenced by 19th-century French Impressionism. He was well known for his depiction fisherman, holiday crowds, circus and hunting scenes, and romantic landscapes. Beal's two panels focus on the diversity of the American landscape, specifically the territories in the North and the South. Beal contrasts the scene of a dog sled being driven through the mountains of Alaska with pineapple planting in the tropics.

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