We look across a shaded field of snow, through a screen of loosely spaced trees at a cobalt-blue mountain that dominates this square landscape painting. The scene is painted with visible brushstrokes throughout. The base of the mountain comes about a third of the way up the composition, and a narrow band of vibrant turquoise sky runs above it, along the top edge of the canvas. The mountain curves up to its gentle peak to our left of center and slopes down gradually to our right. Patches of white snow stand out against the deep blue mountain just above the treetops. Trees along the…
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Mount Monadnock

painter Abbott Handerson Thayer (American, 1849 - 1921)

probably 1911/1914

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 56.4 × 61.4 cm (22 3/16 × 24 3/16 in.) ; framed: 78.4 × 83.2 × 6.7 cm (30 7/8 × 32 3/4 × 2 5/8 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Anna E. Clark Fund, 1934)
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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