The geyser goes up white against blue with a rainbow across it

The geyser goes up in a tall white plume against a clear blue sky and a rainbow crosses low through the spray. The mound below it is bare pale sinter, ridged and streaked, and a dark line of conifers runs along behind at the base of the plume. In the near corner a small hot pool sits in the rock, a vivid blue-green ringed with orange.

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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