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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 landscape in the painting is not the actual landscape as it appears at Lander's Peak but rather an ideal landscape based on nature, altered by Bierstadt for dramatic effect. [4] Bierstadt's painting hit a nerve with contemporary Americans by portraying the grandeur and pristine beauty of the nation's western wilderness.
Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction in painting of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, rivers, trees, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other works, landscape backgrounds for figures can still form an important part of ...
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 ...
Niehues' method of painting ski trails begins with aerial photographs of the mountain that he either takes himself or obtains from Google Earth. [1] He then sketches the mountain based on the photographs and adds color and detail with watercolor paints and an airbrush. [10] By 2016, Niehues had painted 255 maps for 175 ski resorts around the ...
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 ]
An image of the painting is difficult to fully capture with photography, particularly in the attempt to duplicate the intensity of the reflected orange and red sunset light which sparkles with scumbled paint. [2] "The painting seems to exude a rosy light that reaches out to the viewer as [one] bends forward to examine the surface", writes Gregg ...