The Cascades are one of America's great mountain chains. Stretching from Mt. Lassen and Mt. Shasta in the South to British Columbia, the range extends more than seven hundred miles. Most of the summts, many of which reach an excess of 10,000 feet, are extinct volcanos.

Robert Wood painted in the Cascade range before 1920, when he spent an extended time in Washington and Oregon. Mt. Hood was a popular subject for him, and a number of works of Mt. St. Helens, which erupted in 1980, have been discovered.

Wood did many paintings of Mt. Shasta from the 1920s until the 1960s. Paintings have also been cataloged of Mt. Lassen and the famous Oregon peaks called the Three sisters.

(This is a transitional work showing characteristics of Wood's early work done in the Pacific Northwest.)