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The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak. Albert Bierstadt American. 1863. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 760. This and other popular canvases by the German-born Albert Bierstadt shaped the visual identity of the American West in the United States and abroad.
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 Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak, 1863 is the major work that resulted from the artist's first trip to the West. In spring 1859, he accompanied a government survey expedition, headed by Colonel Frederick W. Lander, to the Nebraska Territory.
On his first trip to the West in 1859 Bierstadt traveled from Saint Joseph, Missouri, to the Wind River Mountains with Colonel Frederick W. Landers's Honey Road Survey. In 1860 he exhibited Base of the Rocky Mountains (unlocated) at the National Academy of Design.
The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak. This painting secured Bierstadt's position as the foremost American landscape painter of his day. It was produced in his New York studio based on sketches and photographs he produced during the 1859 survey expedition to the Rocky Mountains.
Bierstadt's technical proficiency, earned through his study of European landscape, was crucial to his success as a painter of the American West and accounted for his popularity in disseminating views of the Rocky Mountains to those who had not seen them.
In 1859, Bierstadt was part of an expedition to the Rocky Mountains led by Colonel Frederick W. Lander. The artist was deeply impressed by the landscape of the American West, and after returning to New York, he painted “The Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak”, often considered his most famous work.
