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Albert Bierstadt (January 7, 1830 – February 18, 1902) was a German American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. He joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion to paint the scenes.
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University(attributed to Albert Bierstadt) Yosemite Valley: Oil on canvas 60 cm × 40 cm (23.6 in × 15.7 in) Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY IAP 35010068 (attributed to Albert Bierstadt) Finsterhorn: Oil on canvas 30 cm × 20 cm (11.8 in × 7.9 in)
An 1869 oil on canvas painting of emigrants on their way to Oregon, ostensibly inspired by a fifty-wagon train of German emigrants who crossed Bierstadt's path during his 1863 expedition. Referred to as Emigrants Crossing the Plains—Sunset in: Tuckerman, Henry T. (1870).
Dimensions: 36 × 47 in (91.4 × 119.3 cm) Place of creation: United States of America : Inscriptions: signed and dated 1872: Notes: Rare privately owned piece which has been compared to some of his most famous and acclaimed works.
Among the Sierra Nevada was created in Rome in winter 1867–68, four years after Bierstadt's trip to the Sierra Nevada. [4] [5] The painting measures 72 by 120 + 1 ⁄ 8 inches (183 by 305 cm) and has an elaborate frame measuring 96 + 1 ⁄ 4 by 144 + 3 ⁄ 8 by 7 + 1 ⁄ 4 inches (244 by 367 by 18 cm).
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Place of creation: United States : Object history: The Buffalo Athletic Club, New York, circa 1931 (plaque verso indicates that this painting was given to the Buffalo Athletic Club in Memory of Samuel Ellis.