Museum Art Reproductions The Morteratsch Glacier, Upper Engadine Valley, Pontresina, 1895 by Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902, Germany) | WahooArt.com

"The Morteratsch Glacier, Upper Engadine Valley, Pontresina"

Albert Bierstadt (i) - Oil On Canvas (i) - 1895 - (Brooklyn Museum (New York, United States)) (i) Bierstadt’s technical proficiency, earned through his study of European landscape, was crucial to his success as a painter of the American West. It accounted for his popularity in disseminating views of the Rockies to those who had not seen them. The immense canvases he produced after his trips with Lander and Ludlow established him as the preeminent painter of the western American landscape.