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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 ...
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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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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.
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 ]
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