In the Alleghenies

Provenance
B. W. Collection, Los Angeles, California
Plaza Art Galleries, Inc., New York, New York
Literature
Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, William Louis Sonntag: Artist of the Ideal, 1822–1900 (Los Angeles: Goldfield
Galleries, 1980), 81, plate 18.

Related Work(s) 
Mountain Landscape, 1854, oil on canvas, 51¼ x 41⅛ inches; Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Washington, DC
Scene in the White Mountains, c. 1860–1870, oil on canvas, 16 ⅛ x 24 inches, signed lower left: W. L.
Sonntag / N. A.; Brooklyn Museum, New York

Note: Sonntag was a self-taught painter who gained acclaim for his landscape paintings. Throughout
his career, he embarked on sketching trips to Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, among other
places, captivated by the mountainous American landscape. His works are widely collected by major art
institutions and museums across the United States, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The
Brooklyn Museum, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, among others. This painting depicts
the Allegheny Mountains in West Virginia.