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The image shows a landscape with rolling hills, fields, distant mountains, and a sky with clouds. The painting has a watercolor style with soft brushstrokes, using muted earth tones such as green, brown, and blue. Trees and ground in the foreground lead the eye towards the mountainous horizon under a serene sky with patchy clouds.
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The image shows a landscape with rolling hills, fields, distant mountains, and a sky with clouds. The painting has a watercolor style with soft brushstrokes, using muted earth tones such as green, brown, and blue. Trees and ground in the foreground lead the eye towards the mountainous horizon under a serene sky with patchy clouds.

National Gallery of Art · Drawing

Blue Ridge Mountains

Stanford White

Date
c. 1898
Medium
watercolor and gouache with pen and brown ink on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 17.9 × 23 cm (7 1/16 × 9 1/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Accession number
1995.52.200
Credit line
Gift of William B. O'Neal
Time span
1876 to 1900
Department
CG-W
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • American
  • Landscape
  • United States
  • landscape
  • Virginia
Provenance

Edmund S. Campbell, Charlottesville, VA; Mrs. Edmund S. Campbell, Charlottesville, VA; gift to William B. O'Neal, Charlottesville, VA, 1951-1994; gift to NGA, 1995.

NGA object ID 76189. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.