The Rocky Mountains (painting)
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| Artist | Albert Bierstadt |
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| Year | 1866 |
| Type | Oil on canvas |
The Rocky Mountains is an 1866 oil on canvas painting by a German-American painter Albert Bierstadt, a painter of Westward Expansion scenes in the latter 19th century. It is a landscape painted in a Luminist style.
Description
Towering mountains are on the right and a lake is in the center; both are below a wispy, cloudy sky.[1]
References
- ↑ Book: American Foundational Myths, ISBN 3-8233-4689-X