Monday, 27 February 2012

Albert Bierstadt - landscape painter - part 3

This is part 3 of a 3-part post on the works of Albert Bierstadt (1830 – 1902). Bierstadt was a German-American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. 
For biographical notes see part 1. For more works by Bierstadt see parts 1 and 2.


1889-90 Sunrise at Glacier Station 
oil on canvas 76 x 112 cm

c1889 Alaskan Coast Range 
oil on paper 35 x 49 cm

c1890 Mount Sir Donald, Asulkan Glacier 
oil on canvas 71 x 51 cm

1891 Island of New Providence 
oil on paper 46 x 61 cm

1895 The Morteratsch Glacier, Upper Engadine Valley, Pontresina 
oil on canvas 97 x 152 cm

1900 The Golden Gate 
oil on canvas 97 x 152 cm

Approaching Thunderstorm on the Hudson River 
oil on paper

Bavarian Landscape 
oil on canvas

Deer at Sunset 
oil on paper 36 x 50 cm

Evening Glow, Lake Louise, Rocky Mountains, Canada

In Western Mountains 
oil on canvas 22 x 30 cm

Indian Encampment

Kern's River Valley, California 
oil on canvas 90 x 132 cm

Lake Tahoe Spearing Fish by Torchlight

Landscape

Mountainous Landscape

Nevada Falls, Yosemite

Old Faithful

On the Saco

Staubbach Falls near Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland

Study for Yosemite Valley Glacier Point Trail

Sunset in the Rockies

Sunset on the Coast

Sunset on the Mountain

Sunset over a Mountain Lake

Sunset over the River

View of the Grindelwald

Saturday, 25 February 2012

Albert Bierstadt - landscape painter - part 2

This is part 2 of a 3-part post on the works of Albert Bierstadt (1830 – 1902). Bierstadt was a German-American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. For biographical notes and earlier works by Bierstadt see part 1.


1869 Ferns and Rocks on an Embankment 
oil on board 49 x 34 cm

1869 The Oregon Trail 
oil on canvas 79 x 124 cm

The Oregon Trail is another version of Bierstadt's earlier work 'Emigrants Crossing the Plains' from 1867 (see in part 1).


c1869 Shady Pool, White Mountains, New Hampshire 
oil on paper 56 x 77 cm

1870 Storm in the Mountains

c1870 Fir Trees and Storm Clouds 
oil on paper 35 x 47 cm

c1870 Sunrise, Yosemite Valley 
oil on canvas

1871 Western Landscape

1871-3 San Francisco Bay 
oil on paperboard 35 x 46 cm

1871-3 Sierra Nevada 
oil on canvas

c1871-3 Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite 
oil on canvas 92 x 67 cm

1872 Sunrise in the Sierras 
oil on paper 34 x 48 cm

c1872 Cathedral Rocks, a Yosemite View 
oil on paper 48 x 35 cm

c1872 Cathedral Rocks, Yosemite Valley 
oil on paper 36 x 51 cm

c1872 Indians in Council, California 
oil on canvas 40 x 56 cm

1873 Liberty Cam, Yosemite 
oil on paper

1873 Yosemite Valley, Glacier Point Trail 
oil on canvas 137 x 215 cm

1873-4 Kings River Canyon, California

1875 Hetch Hetchy Canyon 
oil on canvas 130 x 106 cm

after 1875 Autumn Woodland 
113 x 88 cm

after 1875 Sunrise on the Matterhorn 
oil on canvas 149 x 108 cm

after 1878 After a Norther, Bahamas 
oil on canvas 139 x 215 cm

c1880-88 By a Mountain Lake (Lake in the Grand Tetons) 
oil on canvas 77 x 112 cm

c1880-93 West Indies Coast Scene 
oil on paper 36 x 49 cm

c1880 Moose Hunter's Camp 
oil on canvas

1881 Lower Yellowstone Falls 
oil on paper

c1882 Gates of the Yosemite 
oil on paper 36 x 51 cm

1886 Autumn Woods 
oil on canvas