The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak is an 1863 landscape oil painting by 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 painting shows Lander's Peak in the Wind River Range of the Rocky Mountains, with an encampment of Indians in the foreground.
Sharply pointed granite peaks and fantastically lit clouds hover above a hushed, forested genre scene. The foreground is dominated by the campsite of an Indian tribe. The landscape in the painting is not the actual landscape as it appears in Lander's Peak, but rather an ideal landscape based on nature, altered by Bierstadt for dramatic effect.
Albert Bierstadt (Solingen [a kreisfreie Stadt in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia], January 7, 1830 - New York, February 18, 1902) was a German-American painter made famous by his lavish landscape paintings of the American West.
Bierstadt was a member of the Hudson River School, an informal group of like-minded Romantic-inspired painters. They produced carefully painted landscapes with an eye for detail, provided with romantic glowing light. The painting style that is characterized by this is called luminism. An artist of the American West, Bierstadt can also be seen as a member of the Rocky Mountain School.
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