All Albert Bierstadt 's Paintings
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Choice ID Image  Paintings (From A to Z)       Details 
96157 Wharf Scene with Ship at Dock  Wharf Scene with Ship at Dock   Date:? ttd
2521 White Mountains, New Hampshire  White Mountains, New Hampshire   1863 18.50 x 15.00 ins / 47 x 38.1 cm Private collection
2500 Wind River Mountains Nebraska Territory  Wind River Mountains Nebraska Territory   1862 Oil on composition board 12.01 x 18.50 ins / 30.5 x 47 cm Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee
96156 Wooded Hillside  Wooded Hillside   Date:? ttd
2508 Wooded Landscape  Wooded Landscape   17.99 x 24.02 ins / 45.7 x 61 cm Private collection
2457 Wreck of the Ancon in Loring Bay, Alaska  Wreck of the Ancon in Loring Bay, Alaska   1889 14.02 x 19.76 ins / 35.6 x 50.2 cmMuseum of Fine Arts. Boston
41427 Yellowstone Falls  Yellowstone Falls   mk162 1881 Oil on canvas 44x30
85003 Yellowstone Falls  Yellowstone Falls   Date 1881(1881) Medium Oil on paper mounted on canvas Dimensions 48.9 x 34.29 cm (19.3 x 13.5 in) cjr
88782 Yellowstone Falls  Yellowstone Falls   1881(1881) Medium Oil on paper mounted on canvas Dimensions 48.9 x 34.29 cm (19.3 x 13.5 in) cyf
2489 Yosemite Falls  Yosemite Falls  
96573 Yosemite Falls  Yosemite Falls   1865-1870 Medium oil on canvas cyf
2469 Yosemite Valley  Yosemite Valley   1866 37.99 x 60.00 in / 96.5 x 152.4 cm Collection of Joann and Julian Ganz, jr.
88913 Yosemite Valley  Yosemite Valley   1863 Medium Oil on paper laid down on canvas cyf
95978 Yosemite Valley, California  Yosemite Valley, California   Date ~1863 ttd
95869 Yosemite Valley, Yellowstone Park  Yosemite Valley, Yellowstone Park   Date 1868(1868) Medium oil on canvas Dimensions 91.44 x 137.16 cm (36 x 54 in) ttd
2509 Yosemite Winter Scene  Yosemite Winter Scene  

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Albert Bierstadt
German-born American Hudson River School Painter, 1830-1902 Bierstadt was born in Solingen, Germany. His family moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1833. He studied painting with the members of the D??sseldorf School in D??sseldorf, Germany from 1853 to 1857. He taught drawing and painting briefly before devoting himself to painting. Bierstadt began making paintings in New England and upstate New York. In 1859, he traveled westward in the company of a Land Surveyor for the U.S. government, returning with sketches that would result in numerous finished paintings. In 1863 he returned west again, in the company of the author Fitz Hugh Ludlow, whose wife he would later marry. He continued to visit the American West throughout his career. Though his paintings sold for princely sums, Bierstadt was not held in particularly high esteem by critics of his day. His use of uncommonly large canvases was thought to be an egotistical indulgence, as his paintings would invariably dwarf those of his contemporaries when they were displayed together. The romanticism evident in his choices of subject and in his use of light was felt to be excessive by contemporary critics. His paintings emphasized atmospheric elements like fog, clouds and mist to accentuate and complement the feel of his work. Bierstadt sometimes changed details of the landscape to inspire awe. The colors he used are also not always true. He painted what he believed is the way things should be: water is ultramarine, vegetation is lush and green, etc. The shift from foreground to background was very dramatic and there was almost no middle distance Nonetheless, his paintings remain popular. He was a prolific artist, having completed over 500 (possibly as many as 4000) paintings during his lifetime, most of which have survived. Many are scattered through museums around the United States. Prints are available commercially for many. Original paintings themselves do occasionally come up for sale, at ever increasing prices.

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