Each of these handsome volumes contains 32 large color plates reproduced with superb fidelity on special paper. The informative text and detailed captions will provide inspiration and fresh insight for all who admire great painting.
Using huge canvases befitting his subjects, Bierstadt was the first artist to capture the monumentality of the American wilderness. These beautiful paintings represent a distinct part of America's heritage.
The paintings of American landscape artist Albert Bierstadt (7 January 1830 - 18 February 1902).
This magnificent volume provides a full appreciation of his talent as an artist.
Included among some of these earlier scenes were Chimney Rock, Fort Laramie and Laramie Park .Bierstadt's second trip, this time to the far West, took place in 1863. He traveled with his friend Fitz Ludlow.
A celebration of the work of this German immigrant and Hudson River School painter features seventy-five full-color and fifteen black- and-white reproductions of his most important works.
Ireland; died 1H78, San Francisco, California James Hamilton was born near Belfast, Ireland, of British artists such as John Constable and J.M.W. Turner, Scottish parents who immigrated to Philadelphia in whose influence can be seen in ...
Albert Bierstadt: Painter of the American West
In 19th-century America the landscape oil sketch emerged as a finished work of art, worthy of exhibition and sale. This work concentrates on such leading landscape painters as Frederic Church,...
This magnificent volume provides a full appreciation of his talent as an artist."--Amazon.
Albert Bierstadt (1830 - 1902) was a German-born American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West.