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| ID |
Image |
Oil Pantings, Sorted from A to Z |
Other Information |
| 96157 |
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Wharf Scene with Ship at Dock |
Date:?
ttd |
| 2521 |
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White Mountains, New Hampshire |
1863
18.50 x 15.00 ins / 47 x 38.1 cm
Private collection |
| 2500 |
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Wind River Mountains Nebraska Territory |
1862
Oil on composition board
12.01 x 18.50 ins / 30.5 x 47 cm
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee |
| 96156 |
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Wooded Hillside |
Date:?
ttd |
| 2508 |
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Wooded Landscape |
17.99 x 24.02 ins / 45.7 x 61 cm
Private collection
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| 2457 |
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Wreck of the Ancon in Loring Bay, Alaska |
1889
14.02 x 19.76 ins / 35.6 x 50.2 cmMuseum of Fine Arts. Boston |
| 41427 |
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Yellowstone Falls |
mk162
1881
Oil on canvas
44x30
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| 85003 |
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Yellowstone Falls |
Date 1881(1881)
Medium Oil on paper mounted on canvas
Dimensions 48.9 x 34.29 cm (19.3 x 13.5 in)
cjr |
| 88782 |
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Yellowstone Falls |
1881(1881)
Medium Oil on paper mounted on canvas
Dimensions 48.9 x 34.29 cm (19.3 x 13.5 in)
cyf |
| 2489 |
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Yosemite Falls |
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| 96573 |
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Yosemite Falls |
1865-1870
Medium oil on canvas
cyf |
| 2469 |
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Yosemite Valley |
1866
37.99 x 60.00 in / 96.5 x 152.4 cm
Collection of Joann and Julian Ganz, jr. |
| 88913 |
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Yosemite Valley |
1863
Medium Oil on paper laid down on canvas
cyf |
| 95978 |
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Yosemite Valley, California |
Date ~1863
ttd |
| 95869 |
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Yosemite Valley, Yellowstone Park |
Date 1868(1868)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 91.44 x 137.16 cm (36 x 54 in)
ttd |
| 2509 |
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Yosemite Winter Scene |
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| Albert Bierstadt
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| German-born American Hudson River School Painter, 1830-1902
Bierstadt was born in Solingen, Germany. His family moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1833. He studied painting with the members of the D??sseldorf School in D??sseldorf, Germany from 1853 to 1857. He taught drawing and painting briefly before devoting himself to painting.
Bierstadt began making paintings in New England and upstate New York. In 1859, he traveled westward in the company of a Land Surveyor for the U.S. government, returning with sketches that would result in numerous finished paintings. In 1863 he returned west again, in the company of the author Fitz Hugh Ludlow, whose wife he would later marry. He continued to visit the American West throughout his career.
Though his paintings sold for princely sums, Bierstadt was not held in particularly high esteem by critics of his day. His use of uncommonly large canvases was thought to be an egotistical indulgence, as his paintings would invariably dwarf those of his contemporaries when they were displayed together. The romanticism evident in his choices of subject and in his use of light was felt to be excessive by contemporary critics. His paintings emphasized atmospheric elements like fog, clouds and mist to accentuate and complement the feel of his work. Bierstadt sometimes changed details of the landscape to inspire awe. The colors he used are also not always true. He painted what he believed is the way things should be: water is ultramarine, vegetation is lush and green, etc. The shift from foreground to background was very dramatic and there was almost no middle distance
Nonetheless, his paintings remain popular. He was a prolific artist, having completed over 500 (possibly as many as 4000) paintings during his lifetime, most of which have survived. Many are scattered through museums around the United States. Prints are available commercially for many. Original paintings themselves do occasionally come up for sale, at ever increasing prices.
. Related Artists to : | ROSSELLINO, Bernardo | Giuseppe Grisoni | Abraham Evertsz. van Westerveld | Eliseu Visconti | Francis Quarles | |
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