Title: The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak. Artist: Albert Bierstadt (American, Solingen 1830–1902 New York) Date: 1863. Culture: American. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 73 1/2 x 120 3/4 in. (186.7 x 306.7 cm) Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1907. Object Number: 07.123

The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak is an 1863 landscape oil painting by the German-American painter Albert Bierstadt. It is based on sketches made during Bierstadt's travels with Frederick W. Lander's Honey Road Survey Party in 1859.

The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak, 1863 is the major work that resulted from the artist's first trip to the West. In spring 1859, he accompanied a government survey expedition, headed by Colonel Frederick W. Lander, to the Nebraska Territory.

Albert Bierstadt's (1830–1902) large painting, The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak, completed in 1863, presented the drama of the American West to audiences in the Eastern United States. Although it was more than a decade after the Gold Rush drew settlers to California, most people still had not seen many images of the West.

Bierstadt's technical proficiency, earned through his study of European landscape, was crucial to his success as a painter of the American West and accounted for his popularity in disseminating views of the Rocky Mountains to those who had not seen them.

Not only mountain scenes per se, but Albert Bierstadt was known for his landscape paintings, especially of the American West. An interesting fact is that "A Storm in the Rocky Mountains" is partially an invented view, created to encourage an Eastern audience's curiosity about the western frontier.

2012年1月17日 · The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak is an 1863 landscape oil painting by the German-American painter Albert Bierstadt. It is based on sketches made during Bierstadt's travels with Frederick W. Lander's Honey Road Survey Party in 1859.

The Rocky Mountains is an 1866 oil-on-canvas landscape painting by the German-American painter Albert Bierstadt, a painter of Westward Expansion scenes in the latter 19th century.

2023年10月14日 · When Albert Bierstadt exhibited The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak in 1863 it was wildly popular among both critics and the public. Close to one thousand people attended the single-piece exhibition and two years later it sold for an impressive $25 000.

2023年10月14日 · Looking at the majestic picture one can see the snow capped mountain top, which is the rocky mountains of Wyoming, landers peak, towering over the painting.