A snow cone lit rose above a wide dusk-coloured plain

The mountain rises at the centre-right as a clean snow cone, lit rose and gold while the plain below it has gone brown and dim. A slender tree with thin autumn foliage stands alone at the left, catching the last light, and a few darker trees are grouped further back on the right. A shallow pool lies across the near ground with low scrub around its edge, and the whole sky is a warm amber.

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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