SundayArts
Massive Bierstadt Landscape on Display at Brooklyn Museum
May 23rd, 2008 at 10:13 am

In the 1860s, despite increasing westward expansion, many Americans still had not seen images of the frontier. Imagine, then, gazing into Albert Bierstadt’s 84-square-foot oil-on-canvas paean to Manifest Destiny, A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie. It’s at the Brooklyn Museum, and in this video at SundayArts online.

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