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The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak is an 1863 landscape oil painting by the German-American painter Albert Bierstadt.It is based on sketches made during Bierstadt's travels with Frederick W. Lander's Honey Road Survey Party in 1859.
Among the Sierra Nevada, California, 1868, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Rocky Mountain Landscape, 1870, White House, Washington, D.C. In 1858, Bierstadt exhibited a large painting of a Swiss landscape at the National Academy of Design, which gained him positive critical reception and honorary membership in the Academy. [4]
Swiss Mountain Scene (or Rocky Mountain Scene) 1859 Oil on canvas 60 cm × 85 cm (23.6 in × 33.5 in) Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University IAP 35010066: view: The Trout Brook: 1859: Oil on academy board: 23.2 cm × 29.8 cm (9.1 in × 11.7 in) Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA [2]: 335 IAP 20780420: Approaching Storm ...
The Rocky Mountains is an 1866 oil-on-canvas landscape painting by the German-American painter Albert Bierstadt, a painter of Westward Expansion scenes in the latter 19th century. Description [ edit ]
Paint This with Jerry Yarnell is an educational television show produced by Jerry Yarnell, owner of the Yarnell School of Fine Art. It is broadcast primarily on public television channels. The show focuses mostly on landscape , wildlife , and Western American themes, in the impressionist style.
On his return he painted a mountain landscape on a large 6-by-10-foot (1.8-by-3.0-meter) canvas, The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak. Following the death of General Lander during the Civil War in 1862, Bierstadt named the peak Lander's Peak. [1] The painting was completed in 1863 and sold in 1865 for $25,000.
The painting depicts Native American hunter/gatherers hunting deer in the foreground. [54] A Native American encampment resides by a stream in the distance. The mountains are thrown into either sunlight or the darkness of a thunderstorm. [55] In order to increase its dramatic value, Bierstadt exaggerated the scale of the Rocky Mountains. [54]
Thomas Moran (February 12, 1837 – August 25, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School in New York whose work often featured the Rocky Mountains. Moran and his family, wife Mary Nimmo Moran and daughter Ruth, took residence in New York where he obtained work as an artist.