Greek temples standing in the marsh under a gold evening sky

The sky fills most of the picture, gold along the horizon and turning green-blue higher up, with a few rose-lit clouds. The temples of Paestum stand small and pale on the flat plain at the centre-right, their columns catching the last light. Broken blocks of masonry lie half-sunk in the marsh in the foreground, cattle graze among the reeds, and a rider is out on the plain at the left.

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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