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Artist and Preservation
Before the age of color photography, it was up to painters to capture the beauty of landscapes.
Guide Sections
Use Artist and Preservation's guide sections to understand how this stop fits into the larger park plan.
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Learn About the Park
Before the age of color photography, it was up to painters to capture the beauty of landscapes like those of Rocky Mountain National Park. Works by artists like Albert Bierstadt helped promote the beauty of the west during exhibitions in big eastern cities. Bierstadt's work was funded by the Earl of Dunraven, a wealthy Englishman who settled here and purchased huge tracts of land. Along with paintings by Thomas Moran and photographs by William Henry Jackson, Bierstadt's Rocky Mountain landscapes helped built support for establishing the national parks in the Rockies and elsewhere in the U.S.
