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The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak
The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak is an 1863 landscape oil painting by the 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 Native Americans in the foreground. It has been compared to, and exhibited with, "The Heart of the Andes" by Frederic Edwin Church.
Mountains, Laramie Peak" at the National Academy of Design. His greatest success, however, came with "The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak", which he exhibited in 1863 at the Tenth Street Studio Building, where he also had a studio.
Composition and theme.
The painting shows Lander's Peak, a mountain with a summit of in the Wind River Range in modern-day Wyoming. The peak was named after Frederick W. Lander on Bierstadt's initiative, after Lander's death in the Civil War