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Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast is an 1870 oil landscape painting by the Hudson River School artist Albert Bierstadt. At the time of the work's completion, Bierstadt had not yet traveled to what was then Washington Territory. The work, commissioned by China trade merchant Abiel Abbot Low, was painted solely by written description of the Sound. [1]
Bierstadt became part of the second generation of the Hudson River School in New York, an informal group of like-minded painters who started painting along the Hudson River. [1] Their style was based on carefully detailed paintings with romantic, almost glowing lighting, sometimes called luminism. Bierstadt was an important interpreter of the ...
Albert Bierstadt in an early color photograph by his brother Edward Bierstadt, c. 1895 Bierstadt was a prolific artist, having completed over 500 paintings during his lifetime. [ 13 ] Yet by the time of his death on February 18, 1902, [ 14 ] the taste for epic landscape painting had long since subsided.
Pages in category "Paintings by Albert Bierstadt" ... Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast; R. The Rocky Mountains (painting) The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak; S.
The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak is an 1863 landscape oil painting by the German-American painter Albert Bierstadt.It is based on sketches made during Bierstadt's travels with Frederick W. Lander's Honey Road Survey Party in 1859.
California Spring is an 1875 oil landscape painting by the Hudson River School artist Albert Bierstadt. The painting is based on sketches of the Sacramento River Valley, made by Bierstadt when he visited the region in the early 1870s. [1]
The Rocky Mountains is an 1866 oil-on-canvas landscape painting by the German-American painter Albert Bierstadt, a painter of Westward Expansion scenes in the latter 19th century. Description [ edit ]
Alaskan Coast Range is an 1889 landscape painting by the German American painterAlbert Bierstadt that presently hangs in the Smithsonian American Art Museum. While traveling through British Columbia, Bierstadt took a steamship to Alaska in search of more rugged landscapes. He ended up shipwrecked in Loring, Alaska. While sheltering in a nearby ...