Mount Corcoran.

To create this landscape, Albert Bierstadt drew on his experiences seeing the Rocky and Sierra Nevada mountains while traveling through the West in the 1860s. The snow-capped peak, clear mountain lake, and towering pines appear in many of the artist’s Western landscapes. Despite the specific title and convincing sense of place, this scene is imagined, an amalgamation of thoughts and ideas of the vast western expanse. 

Bierstadt first exhibited the painting as “Mountain Lake” but changed the title to entice Washington, DC, collector William Wilson Corcoran. The artist even supplied a map showing the supposed location of Mount Corcoran. The flattery worked; Corcoran purchased the painting, his first by Bierstadt, in 1878.

A 1968 board decision officially applied the Mount Corcoran name to the highest and northernmost of four pinnacles on the ridge immediately south of Mount Le Conte and north of Mt. Langley in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California.

• Fine, artist-grade cotton canvas.
• High image quality and detail.
• Hanging hooks pre-installed. 
• Indoor use only.
• Soft rubber dots provide support and stability for hanging.
• Printed using non-hazardous, non-toxic, non-flammable latex inks.
• Radiata pine frame sourced from FSC certified renewable forests.