Yellowstone Lake

Oil painting on canvas "Yellowstone Lake" by Cyrenius Hall. It is a landscape depicting Yellowstone Lake with rising steam in shades of blue and green. The surrounding shoreline is reds, orange, black and yellows. A man and a womanwalk toward lake. Tree covered hillside line the background. H 30" x W 50"

Cyrenius Hall made trips to the West in the 1850’s via the Oregon Trail and painted the scenery. Hall was commissioned by Senator W.A. Clark of Montana for three paintings.