Metropolitan Museum of Art
THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, BY ALBERT BIERSTADT
ALBERT BIERSTADT
The foremost of these artists was Albert Bierstadt, who gave to the public its first impressions of the vastness of the Rockies and all their strange fauna, the buffalo, the big trees, and the rest. The public, both educated and uneducated, enjoyed and admired the pictures which offered it a new impression of the grandeur of its country and flattered the somewhat uncouth but real pride of the time.
Other men besides Bierstadt accompanied the explorers of the West,—Whittredge, Wyant, Samuel Colman, and others,—but though they painted the plains and the Rockies they soon deserted them for other subjects. One man, however, now a veteran of his profession, has remained faithful to his early ideals.
THOMAS MORAN
LAKE OF THE WOODS, BY THOMAS MORAN
