Description:
landscape; outdoor; mountain; water; vegetation
Label Text:
This panoramic view of the Wind River Mountains is one of the few known oils resulting from Frost's 1859 trip westward along the Oregon Trail with the wagon road survey party of Colonel Frederick William Lander. Fellow painter Albert Bierstadt, Frost's companion on this trip and former teacher, wrote:
"We see many spots in the scenery that remind us of our New Hampshire and Catskill hills, but when we look up and measure the mighty perpendicular cliffs that rise hundreds of feet aloft, all capped with snow, we then realize that we are among a different class of mountains."
Frost gives each part of this grand landscape its own drama: rich foreground detail, blinding light on distant peaks and Native Americans watching intently as the company swarms into the valley. He exhibited a few works from this trip but returned primarily to painting the White Mountains of New Hampshire and the landscape near his home in Arlington, Massachusetts.
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