Andrew Melrose (Scottish American, 1836-1901), Across the Blue Ridge

Oil on canvas, signed at lower left, inscribed to verso, presented in a period frame.

Stretcher size 16 x 20 in.; Frame dimensions 26 x 29 3/4 in.

Exhibited:
Glen Burnie Museum & Gardens, Winchester, Virginia (likely)

Scottish-born artist Andrew Melrose immigrated to America around 1856 and became known for large-scale landscape paintings exhibited at the National Academy of Design between 1868 and 1883. Working in the tradition of Frederic Edwin Church, he painted panoramic scenes of the American West, the Near East, and other dramatic settings. Later in life, he also worked as a book illustrator from his studio in New Jersey.

Around 1880, Melrose traveled through Georgia and the Carolinas, producing some of his most important Southern landscapes. His best-known North Carolina painting, The Land of the Sky, North Carolina, was exhibited to critical acclaim at the National Academy in 1881. Works such as Morning on the French Broad (Old Blockhouse) reflect his interest in the rivers and mountain scenery of western North Carolina and remain important examples of nineteenth-century Southern landscape painting.

Minor rubbing and chipping to frame.

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