Go West, Young Artist

What do you like to paint, Mr. Herzog?

"Some of my peers, like Mr. Bierstadt, paint spectacular melodramas showing Nature’s grandeur. Mr. Moran loves color and light. I like to show nature's moods. I am amazed by the peace and peril one can find in the natural world.

"I created this painting Bears by Stream to illustrate this harmonious wonder of nature. Do you see how I contrast the serenity of Nature with the danger always lurking therein?

"Point to six things in my painting that are powerful and threatening.

Hermann Herzog, Bears by Stream, circa 1900, Oil on canvas,
JKM Collection. Courtesy National Museum of Wildlife Art

"Good. Now let's look at it...

...a little bit differently..."

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