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Albert Bierstadt
Fishing Boats at Capri
13.50 x 19.49 ins / 34.3 x 49.5 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
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Albert Bierstadt
Seal Rock, California
c1872
15.98 x 22.01 ins / 40.6 x 55.9 cm
The Warner Collection of Gulf States Paper Corporation, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
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Albert Bierstadt
Indians Travelling near Fort Laramie
1861
22.99 x 40.16 ins / 58.4 x 102 cm
Manoogian Collection
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Albert Bierstadt
Sunset Over a Mountain Lake
14.02 x 19.49 ins / 35.6 x 49.5 cm
Private collection
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Albert Bierstadt
The Marina Piccola
1859
42.01 x 72.01 ins / 106.7 x 182.9 cm
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
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Albert Bierstadt
Moat Mountain Intervale New Hampshire
c1862
19.02 x 25.87 ins / 48.3 x 65.7 cm
The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA
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Albert Bierstadt
Gosnold at Cuttyhunk
1858
30.24 x 50.63 ins / 76.8 x 128.6 cm
The Whaling Museum, New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA
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Albert Bierstadt
The Last of the Buffalo
1888
71.26 x 119.25 ins / 181 x 302.9 cm
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA
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Albert Bierstadt
The Oregon Trail
1869
Oil on canvas 31 x 49''(78.74 x 1245.46 cm)
signed,lower right Gift of Joseph G Butler III 946-0-101
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Albert Bierstadt
Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains
mk68
Oil on canvas
Washington,
Smithsonian American Art Musuem
1868
USA
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Albert Bierstadt
Les Montagnes Rocheuses,Lander's Peak
mk75
1863
Huile sur toile
186.1x306.7cm
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Albert Bierstadt
High in the Mountains
mk127
23x32
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Albert Bierstadt
Mountain of the Mist
mk127
23x32
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Albert Bierstadt
Bahamas Harbour
mk127
1882
1830-1902
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Albert Bierstadt
Among the Sierra Nevada,California
mk136
Oil on canvas
1868
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Albert Bierstadt
A Storm in t he Rocky Mountains,Mt,Rosalie
mk140
1866
Oil on canvas
210.8x361.3cm
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Albert Bierstadt
The Coming Storm
mk146
1869
Oil on canvas
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Albert Bierstadt
Yellowstone Falls
mk162
1881
Oil on canvas
44x30
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Albert Bierstadt
Island Lake,Wind River Range
mk162
1861
Oil on canvas
26x40
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Albert Bierstadt
Last of the Buffalo
mk162
c.1888
Oil on board
14x19
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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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