

While many of Stuart’s paintings drew their subjects from the sketching grounds of the Hudson River School, he also acquired resonant landscapes of other regions, from New England to South America.Įxhibition History "The Poetry of Nature: A Golden Age of American Landscape Painting," Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, PA, March 19–June 12, 2016. Stuart who was actively building his American collection.


The landscape was most likely purchased directly from the artist by Robert L. The panoramic mountain vista was painted soon after Sonntag relocated to New York from his native Cincinnati and was displayed at the National Academy of Design in 1859. Morning in the Blue Ridge Mountains is one of Sonntag’s most important paintings a commemoration of his early sketching forays into Kentucky and Virginia. This romantic landscape portrays sunrise over that portion of the Appalachian Range known for its distinctive blue haze an effect caused by the densely forested slopes.
