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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 became part of the second generation of the Hudson River School in New York, an informal group of like-minded painters who started painting along the Hudson River. [1] Their style was based on carefully detailed paintings with romantic, almost glowing lighting, sometimes called luminism. Bierstadt was an important interpreter of the ...
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).
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The exact date it was made is unknown, but Bierstadt sent this print to Elbridge T. Gerry on November 11, 1895. Edward Bierstadt first exhibited colour photographs in 1878 and colour portrait photographs in 1892.
An inscription on the reverse provides the title for this painting, but like many of Bierstadt's paintings, the subject might be drawn more from the artist's imagination than from an actual spot. Whyte's Lake, a man-made lake, existed only one year, 1877, and was washed out by floods the following year.
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.