Title: White Mountain View #13
Artist: Sandra Kavanaugh
Medium: Pastel on paper
Dimensions: 8" × 6"
Overview
White Mountain View #13 is an intimate vertical landscape pastel by contemporary New England artist Sandra Kavanaugh. This 8" × 6" work captures the vivid color of autumn in New Hampshire, balancing warm fall foliage with the cool atmospheric distance of the White Mountains.
Why Collect This Work
Compact yet richly expressive, White Mountain View #13 brings the beauty of a New England autumn landscape into an intimate format. Dense foreground foliage, wild brush, and quick pastel marks lead the eye toward a cool blue mountain ridge, creating a graceful contrast between seasonal warmth and distant atmosphere.
Highlights
- Original artwork: One-of-a-kind pastel painting by Sandra Kavanaugh.
- New England subject: Autumn foliage, wild brush, distant blue mountains, and a pale open sky.
- Atmospheric mood: Bright, crisp, and seasonal, with the warmth of fall color set against cool mountain distance.
- Appealing palette: Canary yellow, copper orange, moss green, deep forest green, cornflower blue, purple, and soft lavender.
- Display appeal: A compact 8" × 6" vertical format suited for a gallery wall, study, hallway, office, shelf display, or New England landscape collection.
Technique and Surface
- Medium: Professional-grade soft pastels on textured fine art paper.
- Technique: Dense, multidirectional scumbling and fine sketch-like edges create varied texture throughout the scene. Quick cream-and-white vertical strokes suggest scrub, wild grasses, and bare branches in the foreground, while broader, smoother passages soften the sky and distant peaks.
- Composition: The vertical format is organized into three atmospheric tiers: active fall foliage in the foreground, a dark middle-ground tree line, and a cool blue mountain ridge rising beneath a pale sky.
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.
