Albert Bierstadt

Among the Sierra Nevada, California

US$ 645.00

Light breaks through cloud over a still lake, deer at the water’s edge, peaks dissolving into haze behind. Bierstadt painted this in Rome in 1868 to show Europe what the American West looked like, and he was not aiming for documentary truth so much as awe. Few paintings are better suited to a large canvas — the scale is the point.

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Artist

Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902) was born in Germany, raised in Massachusetts and made his name painting the American West on a scale nobody had attempted. He travelled with survey expeditions, made small oil sketches on site, then worked them up into enormous studio canvases that toured as paid attractions. Audiences queued to see them. The luminous, theatrical light he gave the Rockies and the Sierra shaped how a generation imagined the continent.

Material Archival canvas
Frame Supplied rolled, unframed
Print Fine-art print, printed to order
Size 54 × 32 inches
Delivery 2–3 weeks
Certificate of Authenticity Included, emailed on delivery
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