Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California is one the paintings of Albert Bierstadt. It display at Washington National Museum of American Art and Painted in 1868, with scenic canvas oil. Albert Bierstadt paintings are all based on the places he visited himself. Mount Washington from the Valley of Conway is a painting from John Frederick Kensett's. It’s painted in 1869 and he used canvas oil in his painting as well. This painting shows the America's hopes and ambitions. Both Albert Bierstadt and John Frederick were member of Hudson River School. Hudson River School was an American art movement started by a group of landscape painters. All of these painters have something in common and that is nature. Nature try to show or tech us how live and behave and as much we need nature it need us as well.
John Frederick Kensett's was born in March 1816. He went to school of Cheshire Academy to study engraving. That’s where he finds his talent in art. He worked as an engraving around fifteen years next to his father. In 1840 he went Europe to study painting. He learned the landscape painting in Europe and went back to United States after seven years. He stablished his new office in New York and start painting. He traveled in US and Europe to get more inspiration from the nature for his paining. In 1851 he painted the Mount Washington that has become an icon of White
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In his early ages he fined his talent in art. He start painting in 1851. To learn how to paint he went to Germany to study painting in the Dusseldorf. After four years he went back to United State and start teaching painting before he start professionally himself. In 1858 he start his first painting show and got good comments from the other painters. In 1861 he travels to west part of the Untied State. However he draw this painting in his way to Rome. Bierstadt was one of the premier American landscape painters of the 1800’s and was well known in both the U.S. and