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BIERSTADT, Albert: Shady Pool, White Mountains, New Hampshire

🖼 Shady Pool, White Mountains, New Hampshire, 1869
Washington, United States

Dappled light filters through dense forest onto a crystalline pool, where a lone figure stands amid towering peaks. Bierstadt's luminous landscape epitomizes 19th-century American Romanticism, celebrating wilderness as sublime spiritual refuge during rapid industrialization.

Albert Bierstadt
Albert Bierstadt
Peter H. Hassrick
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