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Albert Bierstadt
California Redwoods
Date 1872(1872)
Medium English: Oil on paper mounted on canvas
Dimensions 19 1/8 x 14 in. (48.6 x 35.6 cm)
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Albert Bierstadt
Valley of the Yosemite
"Valley of the Yosemite," oil on canvas, by the American artist Albert Bierstadt. 27 in. x 36 in. Yale University Art Gallery, bequest of Frederick W. Beinecke, Ph.D. 1909, to the Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Library. Courtesy of Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
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Albert Bierstadt
Bierstadt Albert Sacramento River Valley
Bierstadt Albert Sacramento River Valley
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Albert Bierstadt
Oregon Trail
31 x 49" (78.74 x 124.46 cm), displayed at Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Date 1869(1869)
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Albert Bierstadt
Valley of the Yosemite
oil on canvas, by the American artist Albert Bierstadt. 27 in. x 36 in. Yale University Art Gallery, bequest of Frederick W. Beinecke, Ph.D. 1909, to the Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Library. Courtesy of Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Date 1868(1868)
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Albert Bierstadt
Sacramento River Valley
Author died more than 70 years ago - public domain
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Albert Bierstadt
Minnehaha Falls
Minnehaha Falls, oil on canvas painting by Albert Bierstadt.
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Albert Bierstadt
Minnehaha Falls
oil on canvas painting by Albert Bierstadt
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Albert Bierstadt
The Emerald Pool
oil on canvas, Chrysler Museum of Art, Bequest of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Date 1870(1870)
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Albert Bierstadt
Albert Bierstadt. painting
oil on canvas, Chrysler Museum of Art, Bequest of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Date 1870(1870)
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Albert Bierstadt
Bridal Veil Falls. Yosemite
Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite, oil on canvas 67 x 91.8 cm
Date 1872(1872)
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Albert Bierstadt
Mountain Lake
Mountain Lake, 13 by 19 in (33 by 48 cm) oil on paper sketch of Mount Spalding, Colorado, as seen over Lower Chicago Lake. Mount Spalding is part of the Mount Evans Massif, also known as the Chicago Peaks. Although the painting is vertically exaggerated, it is otherwise accurate enough to infer the location of the artist's easel to within 100 m (300 ft).
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Albert Bierstadt
A Storm in the Rocky Mountains
A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie, 1866. Painting in the Brooklyn Museum.
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Albert Bierstadt
Sea and Sky
but earlier than 1902
Medium oil on paper mounted on board
Dimensions 14.125 x 18.25 in
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Albert Bierstadt
Sunrise in the Sierras
Date ca. 1872(1872)
Medium Oil on paper mounted on paperboard
Dimensions 34.3 x 47.9 cm (13.5 x 18.9 in)
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Albert Bierstadt
Alaskan Coastal Range
Date 1889(1889)
Medium Oil on paper
Dimensions 35.2 x 49.2 cm (13.9 x 19.4 in)
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Albert Bierstadt
Liberty Cap, Yosemite
Date 1873(1873)
Medium Oil on paper laid down on canvas
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Albert Bierstadt
Bridal Veil Falls
oil on canvas 67 x 91.8 cm
Date 1872(1872)
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Albert Bierstadt
Yellowstone Falls
Date 1881(1881)
Medium Oil on paper mounted on canvas
Dimensions 48.9 x 34.29 cm (19.3 x 13.5 in)
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Albert Bierstadt
Elk Grazing in the Wind River Country
Oil on Canvas, 15 1/8 x 25 inches
Date 1861(1861)
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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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