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BIERSTADT, Albert: Western Landscape

🖼 Western Landscape, 1869
Newark, United States

Golden light floods vast mountains and valleys rendered in luminous detail, with tiny figures dwarfed by towering peaks. Bierstadt's grandiose vision of the American West shaped romantic nationalism, celebrating untamed wilderness as a symbol of national identity and expansionist ideology.

Albert Bierstadt
Albert Bierstadt
Peter H. Hassrick
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