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Valley of the Yosemite (or Valley of the Yo-Semite) is a painting by the German American painter Albert Bierstadt that was completed in 1864. Initially associated with the Hudson River School, Bierstadt rose to prominence for his paintings of the Rocky Mountains, which established him as one of the best painters of the western American landscape.
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, 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.
Bierstadt began painting scenes in New England and upstate New York, including in the Hudson River Valley. He was part of a group of artists known as the Hudson River School. In 1859, Bierstadt traveled westward in the company of Frederick W. Lander, a land surveyor for the U.S. government, to see those western American landscapes for his work. [5]
Spring Fresco, Minoan painting from Akrotiri, 1600–1500 BCE Zhan Ziqian, Strolling About in Spring, a very early Chinese landscape, c. 600. The earliest forms of art around the world depict little that could really be called landscape, although ground-lines and sometimes indications of mountains, trees or other natural features are included.
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).
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His scenes generally included Mont Sainte-Victoire itself, a grey-white limestone mountain, and the surrounding valley and plains that the mountain rose from. [ 3 ] Cézanne's Mont Sainte-Victoire paintings fell into two main periods: those he executed during his so-called "period of synthesis," from roughly the 1870s to 1895, and those he ...