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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.
Bierstadt took the painting to the United States in 1869 and sold it to Alvin Adams, an art collector in Boston. [5] Adams had also owned another Bierstadt piece, Lake Lucerne (1858). [ 10 ] In 1873, Among the Sierra Nevada was acquired by William Brown Dinsmore (1810–1888), [ 11 ] [ 12 ] a businessman who wanted it for his country villa ...
Western Lake: Oil over lithograph: 30.5 cm × 47 cm (12.0 in × 18.5 in) 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
The lake drains its water into the Reuss in Lucerne from its arm called Luzernersee (which literally translates as Lake of Lucerne). The entire lake has a total area of 114 km 2 (44 sq mi) at an elevation of 434 m (1,424 ft) a.s.l., and a maximum depth of 214 m (702 ft).
Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902), American : Lake Lucerne, oil on canvas, ID: ... Lake George and the Village of Caldwell, oil on canvas, ID: 1966.13.1;
The Rocky Mountains is an 1866 oil-on-canvas landscape painting by the German-American painter Albert Bierstadt, a painter of Westward Expansion scenes in the latter 19th century. Description [ edit ]