Abstract
Westward US expansion invited many premier mid-nineteenth century painters to capture majestic landscape vistas unknown back East. The artistry of Thomas Moran, Albert Bierstadt, and Jasper Cropsey transported the Rockies and Sierra Nevada to eastern museums, where residents of industrialising cities discovered nature imagery on a grand scale. Paintings proxied these landscapes with such realism […]

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