Albert Bierstadt

Looking Down Yosemite Valley

US$ 690.00

Morning sun pours straight down the valley and turns the Merced River into a sheet of light between the cliffs. Bierstadt painted it after his first trip west in 1863, and it did as much as any photograph to convince the eastern United States that such a place existed. The scale is deliberately overwhelming.

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Artist

Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) was born in Germany, raised in Massachusetts and trained in Dusseldorf, and became the great painter of the American West. He travelled with survey expeditions and turned his sketches into enormous studio canvases that toured as paid attractions. Taste turned against him late in life and his reputation recovered only in the 1960s.

Material Archival canvas
Frame Supplied rolled, unframed
Print Fine-art print, printed to order
Size 54 × 36 inches
Delivery 2–3 weeks
Certificate of Authenticity Included, emailed on delivery
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