Peaks and Shadows

Prize winner in the exhibition of the California Art Club last fall. Painted near Kanderstag, in Switzerland, in the first year of Payne’s European sojourn, it holds all the enthusiasm of the discoverer of magnificence in form. Its strength is almost overpowering—for it is like the strength, the weight, the volume of the peaks themselves. The snow lies warm in the light, and the foreground shadows, rich with evergreens, shows a deep blue. The sunlit crags glow with broken color, and the entire scheme is one of much beauty.