genre: landscape art / country of origin: United States of America / material used: canvas

instance of: painting (1,127) | study (8) | sketch (3) | artwork copy (1) | unfinished creative work (1)

commissioned by: William Thompson Walters (1)

owned by: Birmingham Museum of Art (14) | Carmen Cervera (11) | Phoenix Art Museum (6) | Dallas Museum of Art (5) | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (4) | Arizona State University Art Museum (3) | Oliver B. James (3) | Charles Savage Homer, Jr. (3) | Kennedy Galleries (2) | Berry-Hill Galleries (2) | M. Bruce Sullivan (2) | Harold E. Simon (2) | Albert Bierstadt (1) | Lamar Hunt (1) | Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1) | Sanford Robinson Gifford (1) | Whitney Museum of American Art (1) | John Sloan (1)

movement: Hudson River School (15) | Realism (4) | Tonalism (3) | Impressionism (2) | Luminism (2) | American Impressionism (2) | luminism (2) | Romanticism (1) | Orientalism (1) | Ashcan School (1) | Tonalist (1)

based on: The Ray of Light (1)

artist: Albert Bierstadt (160) | George Inness (95) | Frederic Edwin Church (72) | Asher Brown Durand (57) | Jasper Francis Cropsey (52) | D. Howard Hitchcock (48) | Thomas Moran (40) | Robert S. Duncanson (40) | Thomas Cole (37) | Martin Johnson Heade (35) | Edward Mitchell Bannister (34) | Sanford Robinson Gifford (33) | Thomas Hill (24) | Worthington Whittredge (21) | Hermann Ottomar Herzog (20) | Thomas Doughty (17) | William Louis Sonntag, Sr. (17) | John Frederick Kensett (15)

part of the series: The Course of Empire (5) | The Voyage of Life (3)

depicts: tree (528) | sky (349) | cloud (313) | mountain (196) | river (155) | hill (128) | man (83) | rural area (66) | house (53) | cattle (52) | lake (51) | waterfall (47) | sunset (46) | landscape (36) | rock (35) | Sun (33) | cliff (33) | woman (32)

collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum (134) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (115) | private collection (79) | National Gallery of Art (48) | Brooklyn Museum (39) | Museum of Fine Arts (34) | High Museum of Art (22) | Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (21) | Yale University Art Gallery (19) | Birmingham Museum of Art (16) | Los Angeles County Museum of Art (16) | Cincinnati Art Museum (16) | White House (14) | Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (13) | Buffalo Bill Center of the West (13) | Corcoran Gallery of Art (12) | Saint Louis Art Museum (12) | New Britain Museum of American Art (11)

location: Smithsonian American Art Museum (134) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (115) | National Gallery of Art (47) | Brooklyn Museum (37) | Museum of Fine Arts (33) | High Museum of Art (22) | Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (20) | Yale University Art Gallery (19) | Birmingham Museum of Art (16) | Los Angeles County Museum of Art (16) | Cincinnati Art Museum (16) | White House (14) | Buffalo Bill Center of the West (13) | Saint Louis Art Museum (12) | New Britain Museum of American Art (11) | M. H. de Young Memorial Museum (9) | Minneapolis Institute of Art (9) | Dayton Art Institute (8)

exhibition history: Phoenix Art Museum (3) | London (1) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | National Gallery of Art (1) | Art Institute of Chicago (1) | Panama–Pacific International Exposition (1) | Amon Carter Museum of American Art (1) | National Academy of Design (1) | International Exposition 1867 (1) | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1) | musée des impressionnismes Giverny (1) | Terra Museum of American Art (1) | Carl S. Dentzel (1) | Thomas Cole: Landscape into History (1) | The Moon: From real travel to imaginary journeys (1)

main subject: Lake George (2) | Andes (1) | Yucatán (1) | Lady of the Lake (1) | gorge (1)

donated by: Carl S. Dentzel (2) | Pi Beta Phi (1) | J.E.R. Chilton (1) | Robert R. Rosenbaum (1) | Carolann Smurthwaite (1) | James Beattie (1) | Charles F. Olney (1)

location of final assembly: California (2) | New York (2) | Brooklyn (2) | New York City (1) | Rome (1) | Maine (1) | Massachusetts (1) | Arizona (1) | Texas (1) | New Mexico (1) | Gloucester (1) | Atlantic City (1) | Taormina (1) | San Francisco Bay (1)