Year 1866 Artist Albert Bierstadt Period Luminism | Medium Oil on canvas Location Private collection Created 1866 | |
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Genres Landscape painting, Pastoral Similar Albert Bierstadt artwork, Landscape paintings | ||
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.
References
The Rocky Mountains (painting) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA