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Albert Bierstadt
The Arch of Octavius
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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1863
35.98 x 57.48 ins / 91.4 x 146 cm
Manoogian Collection
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Albert Bierstadt
Capri
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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
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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
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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
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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
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1876
118.15 x 59.25 ins / 300.1 x 150.5 cm
Private collection
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Albert Bierstadt
Fishing Boats at Capri
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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
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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
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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
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14.02 x 19.49 ins / 35.6 x 49.5 cm
Private collection
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Albert Bierstadt
The Marina Piccola
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Oil on canvas
Washington,
Smithsonian American Art Musuem
1868
USA
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Albert Bierstadt
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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