Title: White Mountain View #4
Artist: Sandra Kavanaugh
Medium: Pastel on paper
Dimensions: 6" × 8"
Overview
White Mountain View #4 is a luminous small-format mountain landscape by contemporary New England artist Sandra Kavanaugh. This original 6" × 8" pastel captures a sweeping view across New Hampshire’s White Mountains, balancing dark evergreen foreground forms with softly lit ridgelines and atmospheric distance.
Why Collect This Work
Compact yet expansive in feeling, White Mountain View #4 brings the quiet grandeur of a high-altitude New England vista into an intimate format. Dark evergreens frame the foreground and guide the eye toward a luminous valley, rolling mountain ridges, and a pale open sky.
Highlights
- Original artwork: One-of-a-kind pastel painting by Sandra Kavanaugh.
- New England subject: A high-altitude White Mountain valley view with evergreen foreground framing, rolling ridgelines, and atmospheric distance.
- Mountain atmosphere: Quiet, expansive, and airy, with layered terrain and a strong sense of regional place.
- Appealing palette: Deep forest green, moss green, shadowed pine, peach, violet-pink, lavender, cerulean, and pale sky tones.
- Display appeal: A compact 6" × 8" size 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: Layered, painterly pastel strokes create contrast between the dense evergreen foreground and the open valley beyond. Thick opaque marks deepen shadowed tree forms, while softer horizontal blending creates distant slopes and atmospheric haze.
- Composition: A horizontal format uses dark evergreen masses to frame the view on both sides. A pale clearing or trail in the lower foreground leads the eye outward toward sunlit slopes, rolling ridges, and the luminous valley beyond.
- Style: Contemporary Impressionism with plein-air influence, emphasizing natural light, atmospheric perspective, and regional geography over precise detail.
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.
