Bierstadt's Mt Hood

[Webfoot]

Splintercat, I just read your lastest WyEast Blog post. Thanks for another entertaining lesson.

Have you seen this?

http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/eca ... art-n09580

[Aimless]

Bierstadt was definitely into romanticizing his landscapes, rather than directly painting what he saw. That Mt. Hood painting is a great example of how his imagination ran wild with reality.