Enormous trunks close overhead above a small camp fire

Redwood trunks the width of a room fill the picture and go up past the top edge, their bark deep red-brown where the light reaches it. High above, the crowns close over and let a soft haze of light through. A stream comes down over rock at the centre-left into a dark pool, and on the flat beside it two small figures sit by a fire while a third stands a little apart — the scale of them is what tells you how big the trees are. A great fallen trunk lies across the foreground.

Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902) was the grandest landscape painter of the American West. Born in Solingen and raised in New Bedford, Massachusetts, he trained at the Düsseldorf academy before joining Frederick W. Lander's overland survey to the Rocky Mountains in 1859 — the first of the western journeys that gave him his subject. From the sketches he brought back he built enormous exhibition canvases such as The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak (1863) and Among the Sierra Nevada, California (1868), in which shafts of light break over peaks and mirrored lakes on a scale that drew paying crowds. His paintings are held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Gallery of Art.

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