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Albert Bierstadt
The Arch of Octavius
1858
28.50 x 37.48 in / 72.4 x 95.2 cm
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California, USA
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Albert Bierstadt
The Trappers Camp
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Albert Bierstadt
Sunlight and Shadow
1862
41.50 x 35.51 inches / 105.4 x 90.2 cm
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California, USA
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Albert Bierstadt
Grizzly bears
c1859
14.02 x 15.98 ins / 35.6 x 40.6 cm
Layton Art Collection, Milwaukee Art Museum
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Albert Bierstadt
White Mountains, New Hampshire
1863
18.50 x 15.00 ins / 47 x 38.1 cm
Private collection
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Albert Bierstadt
Looking Down the Yosemite Valley, California
1865
64.02 x 96.26 in/162.6 x 244.5 cm
Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, USA
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Albert Bierstadt
The Mountain Brook
1863
44.02 x 35.98 ins / 111.8 x 91.4 cm
Collection of Gil Michaels
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Albert Bierstadt
The Wetterhorn
1857
48.11 x 37.99 in / 122.2 x 96.5 cm
Collection of Dr Howard P. Diamond
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Albert Bierstadt
Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite
c1871-73 36.14 x 26.38 ins / 91.8 x 67 cm
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
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Albert Bierstadt
The Wolf River
c1859
48.23 x 38.23 ins / 122.5 x 97.1 cm
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, USA
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Albert Bierstadt
The Emerald Pool
1870
76.50 x 119.02 ins / 194.3 x 302.3 cm
Chrysler Collection, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
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Albert Bierstadt
Donner Lake from the Summit
1873
72.01 x 120.00 ins / 182.9 x 304.8 cm
The New York Historical Society
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Albert Bierstadt
The Yosemite Fall
1864
34.49 x 27.13 ins / 87.6 x 68.9 cm
Timken Art Gallery, San Diego, USA
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Albert Bierstadt
View of the Hudson Looking Across the Tappan Zee-Towards Hook Mountain
1866
36.26 x 72.24 ins / 92.1 x 183.5 cm
Private collection
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Albert Bierstadt
North Fork of the Platte Nebraska
1863
35.98 x 57.48 ins / 91.4 x 146 cm
Manoogian Collection
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Albert Bierstadt
Capri
1857
13.23 x 18.74 ins / 33.6 x 47.6 cm
Tarzoli Gallery, San Rafael, California, USA
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Albert Bierstadt
Mount Hood, Oregon
1865
72.01 x 120.00 ins / 182.9 x 304.8 cm
Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Albert Bierstadt
Wind River Country
1859
12.99 x 18.50 ins / 33 x 47 cm
Collection of Edward T. Wilson
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Albert Bierstadt
Lake Lucerne, Switzerland
1858
72.01 x 120.00 ins / 182.9 x 304.8 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA
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Albert Bierstadt
The Great Trees, Mariposa Grove, California
1876
118.15 x 59.25 ins / 300.1 x 150.5 cm
Private collection
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| Albert Bierstadt
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German-born American Hudson River School Painter, 1830-1902
Bierstadt was born in Solingen, Germany. His family moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1833. He studied painting with the members of the D??sseldorf School in D??sseldorf, Germany from 1853 to 1857. He taught drawing and painting briefly before devoting himself to painting.
Bierstadt began making paintings in New England and upstate New York. In 1859, he traveled westward in the company of a Land Surveyor for the U.S. government, returning with sketches that would result in numerous finished paintings. In 1863 he returned west again, in the company of the author Fitz Hugh Ludlow, whose wife he would later marry. He continued to visit the American West throughout his career.
Though his paintings sold for princely sums, Bierstadt was not held in particularly high esteem by critics of his day. His use of uncommonly large canvases was thought to be an egotistical indulgence, as his paintings would invariably dwarf those of his contemporaries when they were displayed together. The romanticism evident in his choices of subject and in his use of light was felt to be excessive by contemporary critics. His paintings emphasized atmospheric elements like fog, clouds and mist to accentuate and complement the feel of his work. Bierstadt sometimes changed details of the landscape to inspire awe. The colors he used are also not always true. He painted what he believed is the way things should be: water is ultramarine, vegetation is lush and green, etc. The shift from foreground to background was very dramatic and there was almost no middle distance
Nonetheless, his paintings remain popular. He was a prolific artist, having completed over 500 (possibly as many as 4000) paintings during his lifetime, most of which have survived. Many are scattered through museums around the United States. Prints are available commercially for many. Original paintings themselves do occasionally come up for sale, at ever increasing prices.
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