Boats hauled up on the sand under a rose evening sky

Two large boats are hauled up on the sand at the left with their masts crossing and a striped awning rigged over one of them. A third comes in through the surf at the centre with figures standing in it. People are gathered on the beach around baskets and a spread red cloth, and the low sun lies right along the horizon. A ruined tower stands on the headland behind, and the sky is banded rose and gold.

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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