1877 (ca.), Albert Bierstadt, Mount Corcoran -- National Gallery of Art (Washington)
From the museum label:
To create this landscape, Albert Bierstadt drew on his experiences seeing the Rocky and Sierra Nevada mountains while traveling through the West in the 1860s. The snow-capped peak, clear mountain lake, and towering pines appear in many of the artist's Western landscapes. Despite the specific title and convincing sense of place, this scene is imagined.
Bierstadt first exhibited the painting as Mountain Lake but changed the title to entice collector William Wilson Corcoran. The artist even supplied a map showing the supposed location of Mount Corcoran. The flattery worked. W. W. Corcoran purchased the painting, his first by Bierstadt, in 1878, adding it to the Corcoran Gallery's growing collection of American landscape paintings.
1877 (ca.), Albert Bierstadt, Mount Corcoran -- National Gallery of Art (Washington)
From the museum label:
To create this landscape, Albert Bierstadt drew on his experiences seeing the Rocky and Sierra Nevada mountains while traveling through the West in the 1860s. The snow-capped peak, clear mountain lake, and towering pines appear in many of the artist's Western landscapes. Despite the specific title and convincing sense of place, this scene is imagined.
Bierstadt first exhibited the painting as Mountain Lake but changed the title to entice collector William Wilson Corcoran. The artist even supplied a map showing the supposed location of Mount Corcoran. The flattery worked. W. W. Corcoran purchased the painting, his first by Bierstadt, in 1878, adding it to the Corcoran Gallery's growing collection of American landscape paintings.