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 ...

Tracks the change in total value of sales, as well as the total number of lots offered and sold annually in the art market. This chart shows whether Albert Bierstadt’s total sales are going up, and if ...

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 ...

Tracks the change in total value of sales, as well as the total number of lots offered and sold annually in the art market. This chart shows whether Albert Bierstadt’s total sales are going up, and if ...

Birmingham art lovers might notice a familiar image when buying stamps at the post office. At first glance, a light-strewn image of Yosemite Valley on a new commemorative stamp is a dead ringer for ...

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975. Hendricks, Gordon, "Albert Bierstadt: painter of the American West," NY: H. N. Abrams, published in association with the Amon Carter ...

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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 ...

In the Curator’s Words is an occasional series that takes a critical look at current exhibitions through the eyes of curators. Derrick R. Cartwright, director of curatorial affairs for the Timken ...

"Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of American Art," Youngstown, OH: Butler Art Institute, 1951. Butler Institute of American Art, "Sixty years of collecting American art: an index to the ...

A negligent moment meant the end for a ship and a late-career breakthrough for an artist. It was Aug. 28, 1889, a windy morning at the Loring cannery, roughly 20 miles north of what is now Ketchikan ...