Rocky Mountain School

          Thomas Moran: Chasm of the Colorado                                                         Albert Bierstadt: Among the Sierra Nevada

The Rocky Mountain School artists were mostly foreign born and they used their paintings were meant to record images of the unexplored west and to awe the people in the east.  Many of these artists traveled with the expeditionaries of the time and their paintings formed an informal survey of the western territory.  These same paintings also showed those staying in the east, the great potential for wealth held in the western frontier.

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