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Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California, (painting)

Catalog Data

Painter:
Bierstadt, Albert 1830-1902  Search this
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
Birmingham Museum of Art 2000 Eighth Avenue North Birmingham Alabama 35203 Accession Number: 68.1974
Date:
1865
Notes:
Exh. catalog: "Birmingham Collects: American Art Since 1776," Birmingham (Ala.) Museum of Art, 1976.
Birmingham Museum of Art, "Handbook of the Collection," 1984.
Anderson, Nancy K., and Linda S. Ferber, "Albert Bierstadt: Art & Enterprise," New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with The Brooklyn Museum, 1990, pg. 87 and 201.
Carr, Gerald L., "Bierstadt's West," New York: Gerald Peters Gallery, 1997, no. 2.
Image on file.
Birmingham Museum of Art, "Handbook of the Collection," 1984, pl.73.
Anderson, Nancy K., and Linda S. Ferber, "Albert Bierstadt: Art & Enterprise," New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with The Brooklyn Museum, 1990, fig. 56 and pl. no. 42.
Carr, Gerald L., "Bierstadt's West," New York: Gerald Peters Gallery, 1997, no. 2.
(Lower left:) Abierstadt signed
The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
Topic:
Landscape--California  Search this
Landscape--Park--Yosemite National Park  Search this
Landscape--Valley--Yosemite Valley  Search this
Landscape--River  Search this
Landscape--Time--Sunset  Search this
Landscape--Time--Evening  Search this
Control number:
IAP 83750005
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_210282