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Albert Bierstadt - the Paintings
The paintings of American landscape artist Albert Bierstadt (7 January 1830 - 18 February 1902).
Albert Bierstadt
Each of these handsome volumes contains 32 large color plates reproduced with superb fidelity on special paper. The informative text and detailed captions will provide inspiration and fresh insight for all who admire great painting. Using huge canvases befitting his subjects, Bierstadt was the first artist to capture the monumentality of the American wilderness. These beautiful paintings represent a distinct part of America's heritage.
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Bierstadt's West
Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) took his first trip West early in 1859 with Frederic Lander. He was chosen to be a civilian artist on a government expedition which set out to improve the wagon roads of the South Pass from Fort Kearny to the eastern border of California. By the middle of the year, Bierstadt was following the same steps taken by Alfred Jacob Miller twenty-two years earlier, on the Oregon Trail. Along the way he met and sketched thousands of discouraged gold seekers and immigrants. In late summer he returned east and began turning his sketches into huge canvases. Included among some of these earlier scenes were Chimney Rock, Fort Laramie and Laramie Park .Bierstadt's second trip, ...
Albert Bierstadt
Bierstadt was the great recorder of the American western landscape. He was the first artist with both the technique and the talent to convey the powerful visual impact of western space and to capture the scale of America's mountains. This magnificent volume provides a full appreciation of his talent as an artist.
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Albert Bierstadt
Published on the occasion of a related exhibition entitled "Beauty and bounty: American art in an age of exploration," on view at the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Wash., June 30-Sept.11, 2011.
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