Lodges among tall trees on the bank above a quiet river

Tall trees in full summer leaf fill the upper half of the picture, their crowns pale against a bright hazy sky. A group of conical lodges stands among them on a green bank, with figures moving between the lodges and along the slope. Below, the river lies still and brown, and two riders have brought their horses down to drink at the edge, one of them in a red coat, with a pack horse beside them. Driftwood lies in the shallows in the near corner.

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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