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BIERSTADT, Albert: Thunderstorm in the Rocky Mountains

🖼 Thunderstorm in the Rocky Mountains, 1859
Boston, United States

Dramatic storm clouds gather over jagged peaks as lightning splits the sky, rendered in Bierstadt's luminous Hudson River School style. This 1859 masterpiece epitomizes American Romantic landscape painting, celebrating wilderness sublimity while establishing the Rocky Mountains as iconic national imagery.

Albert Bierstadt
Albert Bierstadt
Peter H. Hassrick
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