"Bierstadt was the great recorder of the American western landscape. He was the first artist with both the technique and the talent to convey the powerful visual impact of western space and to capture the scale of America's mountains. This magnificent volume provides a full appreciation of his talent as an artist."--Amazon.
Albert Bierstadt: Painter of the American West
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...
Albert Bierstadt: Painter of the American West
This magnificent volume provides a full appreciation of his talent as an artist.
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.
The paintings of American landscape artist Albert Bierstadt (7 January 1830 - 18 February 1902).
Albert Bierstadt (1830 - 1902) was a German-born American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West.
Many of these are held by museums across the United States.
Beginning in the mid-1860s, the German-American landscape painter Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) used the fortune earned from his painting practice to make speculative investments in railroads, mines, and real estate across the American West, ...