Blue Ridge Mountains
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
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of William B. O'Neal
Accession Number
1995.52.200
Art Historical Context
Visitors to the National Gallery of Art are delighted *Blue Ridge Mountains*, a landscape sketch created around 1898 by Stanford White, the American architect of the Gilded Age. Best known for his Beaux-Arts designs with partner firm McKim, Mead White—including grand structures like the Washington Square Arch—White also pursued fine drawing, revealing his keen eye for form and atmosphere. This intimate work on wove paper17.9 × 23 cm) captures the rolling vistas of the Appalachian Blue Ridge, evoking the era's growing fascination with America's natural wonders amid rapid urbanization. Rendered...