Lot Essay
RELATED LITERATURE:
National Academy Notes, 1888, p. 124, illus. of engraving after the painting
A. Blaugrund, Paris 1889 American Artists at the Universal Exposition, New York, 1989, p. 292, no. 275, illus. of engraving after the painting
Mt. Carter represents the culmination of a series of paintings of New Hampshire that Sonntag executed in the 1880s. Exhibited in 1888 at the National Academy of Design, with the hefty price tag of $1,000, this painting was one of the few American landscape paintings included in the prestigous Paris Universal Exhibition of 1889.
National Academy Notes, 1888, p. 124, illus. of engraving after the painting
A. Blaugrund, Paris 1889 American Artists at the Universal Exposition, New York, 1989, p. 292, no. 275, illus. of engraving after the painting
Mt. Carter represents the culmination of a series of paintings of New Hampshire that Sonntag executed in the 1880s. Exhibited in 1888 at the National Academy of Design, with the hefty price tag of $1,000, this painting was one of the few American landscape paintings included in the prestigous Paris Universal Exhibition of 1889.