Contributions

  • Amon Carter Museum of Western Art. - Contributor

Publication

1974 - H. N. Abrams, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

90,000 words, Guess

Page Count

360 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing1276378
  • Goodreads2193042

Classifications

  • DDC759.13
  • LCCND237.B585 H42

Description

360 pages of beautiful prints and script. Albert Bierstadt (January 7, 1830 – February 18, 1902) was a German-American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. In obtaining the subject matter for these works, Bierstadt joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion. Though not the first artist to record these sites, Bierstadt was the foremost painter of these scenes for the remainder of the 19th century. Bierstadt was part of the Hudson River School, not an institution but rather an informal group of like-minded painters. The Hudson River School style involved carefully detailed paintings with romantic, almost glowing lighting, sometimes called luminism An important interpreter of the western landscape, Bierstadt, along with Thomas Moran, is also grouped with the Rocky Mountain School.

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