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The Rocky Mountains
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Artist Albert Bierstadt
Year1866
Medium Oil on canvas

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

Towering mountains are on the right and a lake is in the center; both are below a wispy, cloudy sky. [1]

See also

References

  1. ^ Book: American Foundational Myths, ISBN  3-8233-4689-X