The Rocky Mountains (painting)

1866 oil painting by Albert Bierstadt

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The Rocky Mountains

Artist| Albert Bierstadt
Year| 1866
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

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

## See also

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* List of works by Albert Bierstadt

## References

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

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Paintings|

* List of works
* On the Platte River, Nebraska (1863)
* The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak (1863)
* Cho-looke, the Yosemite Fall (1864)
* Valley of the Yosemite (1864)
* Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California (1865)
* The Rocky Mountains (1866)
* A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie (1866)
* Among the Sierra Nevada, California (1868)
* Mount Hood (1869)
* Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast (1870)
* Indians in Council, California (1872)
* California Spring (1875)
* Sunrise on the Matterhorn (after 1875)
* The Falls of St. Anthony (1880)
* The Last of the Buffalo (1888)
* Alaskan Coast Range (1889)

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* Edward Bierstadt (brother)
* Hudson River School
* Luminism (American art style)
* Mount Bierstadt
* Bierstadt Lake

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