Albert Bierstadt was a German-American painter best known for his grandiose landscapes of the 19th-century American West. Born on January 7, 1830 in Solingen, Prussia, Bierstadt's family immigrated to ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This small collection measures 0.2 linear feet and comprises 13 letters written by renowned Hudson River School landscape painter Albert Bierstadt ...

“The Domes of the Yosemite” at the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, after restoration Credit: St. Johnsbury Athenaeum Last October, Albert Bierstadt’s massive 1867 painting “The Domes of ...

Art history, like all history, fills its pages with figures who died tragically young. Raphael, Caravaggio, Van Gogh, T.C. Cannon. One of those names will be less familiar to most than the others. The ...

“Yosemite Valley, Glacier Point Trail,” the grand 1873 landscape painting by Albert Bierstadt, anchors a new exhibition on view at the Yale University Art Gallery celebrating the cherished national ...

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — The painter Albert Bierstadt is not, by definition, a native son of New Bedford. He was born in Prussia in 1830. However, he is certainly part of the communal family history. He ...

FRANCONIA, N.H. — Did it matter, really, that Albert Bierstadt’s rapturous 19th-century visions of the American west were far, far too good to be true? It depends how much truth mattered back then, in ...

In mid-June 1863,the celebrated German-born American painter Albert Bierstadt ventured by wagon into the high Rocky Mountains west of Denver, scouting scenes for a Colorado painting. When he got to ...

"A catalogue of the collection of American paintings in the Corcoran Gallery of Art; volume 1," Washington, D.C.: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1966, pg. 126. Cash, Sarah, with Terri Sultan, "American ...