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 ...

“The Domes of Yosemite” by Albert Bierstadt Credit: Courtesy of St. Johnsbury Athenaeum In recent years, visitors who came to the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum to see “The Domes of the Yosemite” by Albert ...

You try to take in the expanse of the landscape and the sweep of the sky, the jagged rock faces and pounding cataracts, the otherworldly light and unearthly shadows. But they confound rational ...