The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak
1863 · Oil on canvas · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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This print
About this work
- Artist
- Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902)
- Year
- 1863
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 186.7 × 306.7 cm
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Movement
- Hudson River School
Sharp granite peaks and sunlit clouds rise over a glassy lake and a waterfall, while in the foreground a Shoshone encampment goes about its day among tipis and horses. Bierstadt joined Frederick W. Lander's government survey party in 1859 and reached the Wind River Range of the Rockies, in present-day Wyoming, filling sketchbooks and taking photographs; he painted this canvas, more than three metres wide, in New York in 1863 and showed it at the Tenth Street Studio Building. He had the peak named for Lander after the colonel died in the Civil War. The landscape is composed rather than copied, and the picture presented the West as a frontier awaiting settlement, a vision that left little room for the people in its foreground. It sold in 1865 for 25,000 dollars, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired it in 1907.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Granite peaks, sunlit clouds and a glassy lake above an encampment, a wide Western panorama for a living room, study or lodge-style den at 24×36 in black. A sage, cream or warm grey wall; it suits stone, timber and leather.
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Hudson River School painting
- Era
- 19th century (1863)
- 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.
