Like no other artist, German-born painter Albert Bierstadt portrayed the unspoiled grandeur of the 19th-century American West. He was known for large canvases, heavy luminosity, towering trees, and gargantuan mountains, while humans and horses were made to look even tinier in comparison.
Bierstadt was not the first artist to depict the American West, but the vivid intensity of his work made him, for some time, the preeminent artist of the Western genre.

Albert Bierstadt

Indians Spear Fishing
Oil
19.25″ x 29.25″

Albert Bierstadt

Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains
Oil
72″ by 120″