Untitled (mountain landscape)

During the 1930s and 1940s, Stevens painted in three modes: an American Scene style, an American abstraction that retained aspects of naturalism and a geometric abstraction. He saw and was influenced by the work of Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee. Here, he creates a painting that addresses harmonious interconnection between the visible world and the universal world that exists beyond the senses. The mountains serve as both stylized, identifiable symbols of the landscape and as a naturalistic rendering of a specific locale.