Wind River Country
Albert Bierstadt was a leading figure of American Romanticism, famous for creating massive, dramatic landscapes that made the American West look like a divine paradise. He traveled with surveying expeditions in the 1860s to sketch the rugged terrain of the Wind River Range in Wyoming. Notice how the detailed foreground of gnarled trees and rocks leads your eye toward the glowing, snow-capped peaks in the distance? Bierstadt often exaggerated the grandeur of these scenes to convince Easterners that the frontier was worth exploring, essentially painting the first breathtaking 'postcards' of a wild America.
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