PLAINFIELD – A Superior Court judge has denied the city's request to sell two historic paintings hanging in City Hall, delivering a blow to Plainfield’s attempt to fund an initiative to create bank ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Bierstadt Art Society is exhibiting paintings by Joseph Edwards Alexander at the Wamsutta Club through Oct.3. The Bierstadt Art Society is a collaborative of local artists and art enthusiasts ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reporting from Seattle — — In 1861 Carleton Watkins took the definitive picture of Yosemite Valley from the aptly named Inspiration Point. The sheer granite wall of El Capitan, as sharp as if ...

"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 ...

Museum of Fine Arts Boston, "M and M Karolik Collection of American paintings, 1815 to 1865," Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1949. "American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston," ...