The expansive tidal marsh that sprawls below the old Coast Guard Station in Eastham seemed to lend itself particularly well to a triptych, or three-panel painting. The view looks northeast from a path running down through old coastal farm land - now a rolling moor lush with Queen Anne's lace and goldenrod - from the Captain Penniman House that sits atop historic Fort Hill. Each panel of the painting covers a slightly different segment of the view: on the far right, mostly the broad, lonely marsh; in the center, the brilliant white of the Coast Guard Station on the hill above the marsh; on the left, a private home so nestled in the upland trees of the National Seashore that it probably has no view at all of the marsh.
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