Title: White Mountain View #10
Artist: Sandra Kavanaugh
Medium: Pastel on paper
Dimensions: 6" × 8"
Overview
White Mountain View #10 is a vibrant small-format landscape by contemporary New England artist Sandra Kavanaugh. This original 6" × 8" pastel captures the color and atmosphere of autumn in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, balancing brilliant fall foliage with the cool distance of a soft mountain ridge.
Why Collect This Work
Compact yet full of seasonal energy, White Mountain View #10 brings the warmth and texture of a New England autumn landscape into an intimate format. A pale path or clearing leads the eye into dense bands of golden foliage, while a dark evergreen on the right anchors the composition and frames the distant mountain view.
Bright golds, fiery copper oranges, lemon yellows, and deep forest greens create a lively foreground, balanced by cool slate-blue mountain tones and a soft, diffused sky. The result is a crisp, expressive landscape that feels both immediate and atmospheric—well-suited for collectors who appreciate New England scenery, autumn color, and plein-air-inspired pastel work.
Highlights
Technique and Surface
- Medium: Professional-grade soft pastels on textured fine art paper.
- Technique: Expressive, painterly marks create both atmosphere and texture. Broad strokes soften the distant mountain ridge, while layered scumbling builds the tactile quality of autumn leaves and brush in the foreground.
- Composition: A horizontal format leads the eye from a pale foreground path or clearing into a dense band of brilliant autumn trees, with a tall evergreen on the right providing structure and balance.
- Style: Contemporary Impressionism with plein-air influence, emphasizing shifting outdoor light, seasonal color, and immediate visual impact.
- Original artwork: One-of-a-kind pastel painting by Sandra Kavanaugh.
- New England subject: Autumn foliage, a pale foreground clearing, distant White Mountain ridge, and a strong evergreen accent.
- Seasonal atmosphere: Bright, crisp, and expressive, with warm fall color set against cool mountain distance.
- Appealing palette: Autumn gold, copper orange, lemon yellow, forest green, earthy sienna, slate blue, and soft sky tones.
- Display appeal: A compact 6" × 8" size suited for a gallery wall, study, hallway, office, shelf display, or New England landscape collection.
Inventory Status: Available for purchase online or in the gallery.
Shipping / Pickup: Shipping is available worldwide. Each artwork is securely packaged in professional archival materials, insured, and shipped globally. Complimentary local pickup is also available at our 23 North Main Street gallery.
