Plank huts and drying racks above a wide stony beach

A row of rough plank and canvas huts stands along the top of a bank at the right, patched together from boards of different colours with cloths hung out along the front. The foreground is a wide stony beach, painted almost entirely in cool greys, with split fish and timbers laid out on it. Two figures sit on the stones near the centre, one in red, and another stands up by the huts against the pale sky.

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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