Great firs on a bank above still water, a path at their foot

A group of very large conifers fills the picture, their trunks going up past the top edge and their bark warm where the light strikes it. One tree leans out to the right, its long lower branch curving down almost to the water. Behind them the sky is deep blue and a sheet of still water shows between the trunks, and at the bottom a pale path runs along the foot of the bank.

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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