“Yosemite Valley, Glacier Point Trail,” the grand 1873 landscape painting by Albert Bierstadt, anchors a new exhibition on view at the Yale University Art Gallery celebrating the cherished national ...
You can sum up a good share of the history of art in the Pacific Northwest in two ideas: the land and the paint. Around here, artists tend to think of paint and landscape as equal aspirations. It's a ...
Albert Bierstadt was a German-American painter best known for his grandiose landscapes of the 19th-century American West. Born on January 7, 1830 in Solingen, Prussia, Bierstadt's family immigrated to ...
Landscapes were a staple of American painting in the 1800s for a good reason. Surrounded by considerably more nature than culture, painters turned readily to the pastoral beauty of their nation’s ...
Art history, like all history, fills its pages with figures who died tragically young. Raphael, Caravaggio, Van Gogh, T.C. Cannon. One of those names will be less familiar to most than the others. The ...
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