Albert Bierstadt Artworks collected in Metmuseum
Albert Bierstadt (January 7, 1830 – February 18, 1902) was a German-American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. He joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion to paint the scenes. He was not the first artist to record the sites, but he was the foremost painter of them for the remainder of the 19th century. Bierstadt was born in Prussia, but his family moved to the United States when he was one year old. He returned to study painting for several years in Düsseldorf. He became part of the second generation of the Hudson River School in New York, an informal group of like-minded painters who started painting along the Hudson River. Their style was based on carefully detailed paintings with romantic, almost glowing lighting, sometimes called luminism. Bierstadt was an important interpreter of the western landscape, and he is also grouped with the Rocky Mountain School. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Bierstadt
Sea Cove
title: Sea Cove
department: The American Wing
accessionYear: 1979
Study of a Tree
title: Study of a Tree
department: The American Wing
accessionYear: 1976
Nevada Falls, Yosemite
title: Nevada Falls, Yosemite
department: The American Wing
accessionYear: 1979
Sunrise on the Matterhorn
title: Sunrise on the Matterhorn
department: The American Wing
accessionYear: 1966
Mountain Scene
title: Mountain Scene
department: The American Wing
accessionYear: 1979
After the Storm
title: After the Storm
department: The American Wing
accessionYear: 1966
Study of Rocks and Trees by a Lake
title: Study of Rocks and Trees by a Lake
department: The American Wing
accessionYear: 1977