Description
Mount Hood rises across the scene, its broad snowy summit marked by blue and violet shadows. A low strip of darker land and trees borders the foreground, while open sky softens the outline of the peak. The mountain dominates the composition.
About Mount Hood 1917 Reproduction
Cool blue-gray, violet, and pale cream describe the snow and slopes. The lower land is warmer and less detailed, creating a contrast between the high mountain and the nearer ground. The wide horizontal format gives the summit room to spread.
The painting emphasizes the scale of the mountain and changing surfaces. Darker marks trace ridges, while lighter areas suggest snow catching the glow of the sky. A quiet foreground keeps attention on the peak and its broad outline against the open sky. The summit spreads into a wide, pale ridge with darker blue and violet marks describing snow and rock. A strip of forest and lower ground runs across the foreground, showing the scale of the mountain. Cloudy light softens the top edge. The lower slopes show trees and rocky ledges; lighter bands break across the summit. Thin clouds leave the peak outline visible above the nearer land and tree line. The ridge dips and rises unevenly from one side of the painting to the other, while darker.
The hand-painted reproduction
ByMuseum offers Mount Hood 1917 by Arthur Wesley Dow as a hand-painted oil reproduction on canvas. Give the mountain view a wide, uncluttered wall. Gentle light will preserve the violet shadows and pale snow without flattening their differences. Keep clear space around the artwork so its full arrangement remains easy to appreciate.
- Snow and shadow mark the broad summit
- Low dark land frames the mountain
- Painted individually in oil on canvas.
- Select the available size and presentation on this page.





