Two strategies illustrated: painting in the valley and de-emphasising the surrounding hills, or painting from above the valley, with the hills not visible.
Bierstadt
Poussin, Church, Grimshaw, Peterssen, Bierstadt, Turner, Cézanne, Klimt and Hodler paint lakes.
After Courbet, the Great Wave influenced Bierstadt, Gauguin, Walter Crane, Henry Moret, Georges Lacombe, and became truly iconic.
Contents with links for each article in the series, with lists of mountains and locations covered.
After Church painted the Andes, Albert Bierstadt travelled with surveyors to the Rockies in 1859 and 1863, from where his paintings are awe-inspiring.
The hills are alive with eagles, black grouse, sheep, highland cattle, deer, and even the occasional goat.
Waterfalls in mountains are spectacular, and difficult to access. Examples include the falls where Sherlock Holmes fought with Moriarty.
Bierstadt, who went west to the Rocky Mountains with surveyors, the former Surveyor General of New Zealand, and the greatest expeditionary botanical painter, Marianne North.
Burke’s sublime became attractive to some in the late 18th century. They took to the mountains, to record high peaks and narrow gorges in paintings. First of a new series.
Superb views of this beautiful sub-tropical island, painted by Blechen, Bierstadt, John Singer Sargent and others.
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