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Mount Bierstadt is a 14,065-foot-high (4,287 m) mountain summit in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, in the U.S. state of Colorado.The fourteener is located in the Mount Evans Wilderness of Pike National Forest, 9.4 miles (15.1 km) south by east (bearing 171°) of the Town of Georgetown in Clear Creek County.
Mount Blue Sky is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from Mount Bierstadt. [13] In 1876, Bierstadt was commissioned by Windham Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl to make an exceptionally large canvas painting of Longs Peak and Estes Park for $15,000, equivalent to $442,922 in 2024. Bierstadt traveled throughout the area with Theodore Whyte, the ...
Bierstadt was probably the first European to visit the summit of Mount Blue Sky in 1863, 1.5 miles from Mount Bierstadt. [32] Bierstadt named it Mount Rosa, a reference to both Monte Rosa above Zermatt and, Rosalie Ludlow, his future wife, but the name was changed from Rosalie to Evans in 1895 in honor of Colorado governor John Evans, and again ...
Among the Sierra Nevada was created in Rome in winter 1867–68, four years after Bierstadt's trip to the Sierra Nevada. [4] [5] The painting measures 72 by 120 + 1 ⁄ 8 inches (183 by 305 cm) and has an elaborate frame measuring 96 + 1 ⁄ 4 by 144 + 3 ⁄ 8 by 7 + 1 ⁄ 4 inches (244 by 367 by 18 cm).
The Sawtooth is a jagged arête joining Mount Bierstadt to (eventually) Mount Blue Sky in the Front Range of central Colorado. [4] The three points along this arête resemble the teeth of a saw, leading to its name.
Located in southwest Bolivia, Salar de Uyuni is the world's largest salt flat. The 10,582-square-kilometer (4,086-square-mile) area is covered in white salt, rock formations, and islands studded ...
Some people have unique ways they prepare for their daily rituals and Today show fixture Al Roker is no different, although his prep may be a little stranger than others.. During an appearance ...
Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California (or Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California; or Sierra Nevada in California; or Western Landscape with Lake and Mountains) 1868: Oil on canvas: 305 cm × 183 cm (120.1 in × 72.0 in) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC IAP 08582014