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Edgar Alwin Payne
The Great White Peak (No.2)1924

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Square oil painting of a snow-covered alpine mountain with a glacier, rendered in thick, mosaic-like brushstrokes of white, blue-gray, and terracotta against a teal sky, with dark conifer forests below

Edgar Alwin Payne, The Great White Peak (No.2), 1924, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of James N. and Linda S. Ries in memory of Harold and Dorothy Shrier, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Edgar Alwin Payne
United States, Missouri, Washburn, 1882-1947
Title
The Great White Peak (No.2)
Place Made
United States, Missouri, Washbur
Date Made
1924
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Frame: 71 × 71 in. (180.34 × 180.34 cm) Canvas: 62 × 62 in. (157.48 × 157.48 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of James N. and Linda S. Ries in memory of Harold and Dorothy Shrier
Accession Number
M.2000.181
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
American Art
Provenance
James N. (b. 1938) and Linda Shrier (b. 1940) Ries, gifted in 2000 to; LACMA.
Selected Bibliography
  • Fort, Ilene Susan, with Trudi Abram. American Paintings in Southern California Collections: From Gilbert Stuart to Georgia O'Keeffe. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1996.
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art Members' Calendar 1991. vol. 28-29, no. 12-1 (December, 1990-January, 1992).
  • Coen, Rena Neumann. The Paynes, Edgar & Elsie: American Artists. Minneapolis: Payne Studios Inc., 1988.