An iconic Hudson River School of Art landscape painting linked to the Conservation Movement that supported interest in creating the National Park system was previewed as the 12th of 16 Forever Stamp images to celebrate the National Park Service’s 100th anniversary. (Courtesy photograph)
An iconic Hudson River School of Art landscape painting linked to the Conservation Movement that supported interest in creating the National Park system was previewed as the 12th of 16 Forever Stamp images to celebrate the National Park Service’s 100th anniversary. (Courtesy photograph)

Woodstock — A major landscape painting from the Hudson River School of Art that hangs at the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park is being featured in a new stamp, the National Parks Service said Thursday.

A detail from Albert Bierstadt’s oil-on-canvas painting “Scenery in the Grand Tetons” is the 12th of 16 Forever Stamp images that are helping to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service.

Bierstadt and the Hudson River School were part of the conservation movement that helped lead to the creation of a national park system, the park service said.

“This stamp exemplifies how our national park treasures extend beyond stunning vistas, wildlife, flora and fauna,” Stephanie Toothman, the associate director for cultural resources, partnerships and science at the National Park Service, said in a statement.

“Albert Bierstadt’s painting represents the convergence of artistic, literary and political attention toward America’s scenic beauty in the 19th century, which helped establish conservation as a national value and laid the foundation for the first national parks a century ago.”

The painting’s home base is what had been the late Laurance Rockefeller’s study at the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller mansion in Woodstock.