painting of Mt. Mansfield Archives

Mt, Mansfield copyright by Carol Skinger

Mt. Mansfi e ld Print 8 1/2″ x 19 1/2″ print includes a white 1/2″ border.

Printed on Hahnemühle Bamboo paper $50 includes packing and shipping shipping in US.

Prior to the mid-eighteenth century, the mountain was known by its Abenaki name, Mozôdebiwajok which translates to Moosehead Mountain.

Painting of Mt. Mansfield in Stowe, VT

I developed the original art by first painting the sky with Dr. P.H.Martin’s archival ink. Specifically the sky is painted with a pigment based “Ocean Fountain Pen Ink‘, a lightfast, archival, brilliant, fine artist pigment liquid color on watercolor paper.

When dry, I free-hand painted a winter scene of the profile of Mt. Mansfield in Holbein Acrylic Gouache, a water based paint which is of professional quality, lightfast, finely ground pigment plus acrylic binder.

What you mostly see of Mt. Mansfield is the part above tree line and you also see the tops of several ski trails coming from both the Octagon and the Cliff House. If you look closely you can see the blue coming through where I scratched through the black gouache, to get some forest like dimension.

People have said the way the brilliant blue sky is painted reminds them of the Northern Lights. The original painting is now in Wyoming after it was auctioned in June 2025 as part of a fundraiser for the Stowe High School Alumni Group at an alumni banquet. The owner of the painting is Mary Beth Quinn, who was from Stowe, ski raced for Mount Mansfield Ski Club, Burke Mountain Academy and UVM where Marilyn Cochran was her coach. As Ski School Director at Virginia’s Wintergreen Resort she was quoted in the Washington Post in 1998 . Congratulations Mary Beth. I know how much you hoped to have the painting!

I’m showing this print along with several other original paintings of Mt. Mansfield in a group show of The Pittsburgh Group in Sewickely, PA in Feb and March 2026 at Sweetwater Center for the Arts.

I wrote about that show and the paintings here if you want to see them.

The BEST painting I ever saw of Mt. Mansfield titled The Belated Party on Mt. Mansfield was painted in 1858 by Jerome Thompson. Go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Wing to see it.

Paintings in blue and white and black by Carol Skinger of two frontal views of Mt. Mansfield in Winter. watercolor, gouache, archival ink. Copyright @Carol Skinger

The artworks I have selected to exhibit with the Pittsburgh Group Sewickley, PA at the Sweetwater Art Center from Feb 5 – March 27, 2026, are autobiographical re: the landscape of my childhood. The season is winter, and the show is in the winter.

The opening for the art show was Thursday February 5, 2026 from 6-8PM.

Sweetwater Art Center 200 Broad St. Sewickley, PA15243

Regular Hours: Open weekdays 9-5. Closed weekends. 412-741-4405 call ahead to check for weather closings

My pieces to be exhibited are part of an exhibition by The Pittsburgh Group, a group of 17 women artists and will be on the Mezzanine level of Sweetwater Center for the Arts. We each submitted 3 or 4 pieces.

Here is a list of Exhibiting members in this show.

The artworks I am exhibiting were painted in shades of blue during and after a 2024 ski trip with my husband to Mt. Mansfield in Stowe, Vermont. On one of our ski days, I joined my sister Erica who was a member of the US Alpine Ski Team 1968- 1969 to ski together on what I now call the big, beautiful backyard of my childhood. It had been a VERY LONG TIME since we skied there together. We loved our runs on Mt. Mansfield! It’s great to be able to share this landscape more with my husband now that he is retired. Growing up, my family lived close enough to the bottom of Mt. Mansfield that we could ski home after a day of skiing. My sisters and I spent so much time on the mountain in all seasons. Spring, summer and fall was for hiking. It left an indelible memory, and I feel lucky and happy to be able to revisit it now a couple times a year.

Painting Copyright by Carol Skinger with Deep Blue sky over Mt. Mansfield in winter.

Frontal View of Mt. Mansfield #1 was completed in 2025.The original painting found a home in Wyoming, but I have prints available for sale. Printed on Hahnemühle Bamboo paper Original media: Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Permanent Ink. 19 1/2” w. x 8 1/2” h. (+-) including white border. Read more and see price

Title of artwork: Frontal View of Mt. Mansfield, Stowe, VT #2
Medium: Watercolor Dimensions (H × W × D): 21” h. x 29” w. x 2” d.
Year created: 2024
Is the artwork for sale? NO (but I will have it scanned for prints after the show ends)

Painted in the rental unit after a day of skiing; just painted on two pages of my watercolor notebook at night from memory. The traveling watercolor set is by Derwent Intense watercolors, permanent when dry – doesn’t washout like watercolor. Layer up intense vibrant colors. The red dot is the Octagon, a restaurant at top of chairlift, now painted red. Here’s a picture of me in the bathroom as I painted this picture:

Title of artwork: Watercolor Study for View East from Mt. Mansfield
Medium: watercolor
Dimensions (H × W × D): 14”h. x 11” w. x 2” d.
Year created: 2024
Is the artwork for sale? (Yes/No): YES
Sale price (if applicable): $250. SOLD

Note: People responded a lot to this when I posted it on social media when done.

Title of artwork: View East from Mt. Mansfield
Medium: Acrylic paint
Dimensions (H × W × D): 24 ½” h. x 21 ½” x 2”d
Year created: 2024
Is the artwork for sale? (Yes/No): NO
Sale price (if applicable): NFS

View East from Mt. Mansfield (Acrylic)
Medium: Acrylic
Dimensions (H × W × D): 48” h. x 36” w. x 2”d.
Year created: 2024
Is the artwork for sale? (Yes/No): Yes
Sale price (if applicable): $1500.

For scale I am standing with the painting:

Acrylic painting 36" x 48" with white snow in foreground, liine of trees and then rolling hills in distance painted in blues. Ble ski and white clouds.

I am a member of the Pittsburgh Society of Artists and the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh. I was pleased to be invited to join the Pittsburgh Group in 2024. Education: California College of Arts and Crafts (BFA) now called California College of the Arts; additional studies at Instituto Allende, Mexico, Boston Architectural Center, Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill.

The Art Award I’m proudest of was from Juror Freyda Spira, Associate Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I received one of her Best of Show awards at Intr[au]spective exhibition , in Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers Arts Festival.

Sweetwater Center for the Arts celebrated its 50th anniversary recently by planning for a spectacular renovation described in this Pittsburgh Magazine article . I learned that Alice Snyder, Trudy Hetherington and Smokey Jack were the founding mothers. While Sweetwater Center for the Arts currently has exhibition space on two floors, it exciting to see the future in the architectural rendering below. Fundraising is ongoing.