A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie
1866 · Oil on canvas · Brooklyn Museum, New York
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This print
About this work
- Artist
- Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902)
- Year
- 1866
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 210.8 × 361.3 cm
- Collection
- Brooklyn Museum, New York
- Movement
- Hudson River School
Storm clouds boil around a mountain summit while sunlight breaks through onto a valley with a lake, a waterfall and a small Indigenous encampment; the canvas is over three and a half metres wide, built as a Great Picture to be shown on its own under theatrical lighting to paying crowds. Bierstadt made the on-site studies in 1863 on an expedition to the Colorado Rockies with the writer Fitz Hugh Ludlow and finished the painting in his New York studio in 1866. He named the peak Mount Rosalie after Ludlow's wife, whom he later married. The landmarks are rearranged and the scale exaggerated for effect. The mountain was renamed for Governor John Evans in 1895 and, after years of Indigenous activism over Evans's role in the Sand Creek Massacre, became Mount Blue Sky in 2023. The Brooklyn Museum acquired the painting in 1976.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Boiling storm clouds and a shaft of sun on a valley lake, built as a Great Picture for spectacle, for a living room, den or long hallway at 24×36 in black. A charcoal, deep green or warm grey wall; hang it alone.
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Hudson River School painting
- Era
- 19th century (1866)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- calm
- Rooms
- living room, dining room, dorm room, hallway or entryway
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
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A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
