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IN 1859, painter Albert Bierstadt traveled from the East Coast westward in the company of a U.S. government survey expedition. Bierstadt's mission was to make sketches for a series of large-scale landscape paintings to be completed back in his New York studio. His first foray to the West took him to Colorado and Wyoming, where he spent a summer sketching the wildlife and the virgin terrain. Later journeys took him as far as California. Bierstadt's resulting monumental landscapes captured the ...

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