Wind River Country by Albert Bierstadt - Single Picture Frame Print on Canvas

This ready to hang, matted framed art piece features a river with mountains in the background. The artist was best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. In obtaining the subject matter for these works, he joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion. Though not the first artist to record these sites, he was the foremost painter of these scenes for the remainder of the 19th century. He was part of the Hudson River School, not an institution but rather an informal group of like-minded painters. The Hudson River School style involved carefully detailed paintings with romantic, almost glowing lighting, sometimes called luminism.