A granite dome and a sheer cliff face under moving cloud

A rounded granite dome rises at the top of the picture with a sheer cliff face dropping away below and to the right of it, and cloud moving across behind. Conifers climb the slope on both sides, with a few bare trunks standing among them, and a large dark boulder sits in the foreground with green scrub growing around it. The rock is pale grey warmed with ochre where the sun catches it.

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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