Anyone who’s driven down I-5 on a sunny day and seen Mount Rainier rise above the horizon knows the power of the Pacific Northwest landscape. But a new Seattle Art Museum exhibit examines the continent’s purple mountains majesty through the eyes of awestruck 19th-century artists experiencing the "Great West" for the first time: Sanford Gifford, Albert Bierstadt, and Thomas Moran among them...
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