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The Sierras Near Lake Tahoe, California
186514 15/16 x 21 1/16 in. (38 x 53.5 cm)
Albert Bierstadt
United States (Solingen, Germany, 1830 - 1902, New York, NY)
Object Type:
Painting
Medium and Support:
Oil on panel
Credit Line:
Clara and Edwin Strasenburgh Fund and Marion Stratton Gould Fund
Accession Number:
1992.78
Location: Not currently on view
Bierstadt was one of the most gifted artists to depict the stunning mountain views of the expanding frontier, far west of the Hudson River region that had inspired earlier American landscape painters. He was a member of the generation of artist-explorers who traveled with expeditions or in their footsteps and recorded the visual experience. MAG's painting quietly but masterfully convinces us of the grandeur of mountains and sky by including the tiny deer to give a sense of scale, and by suffusing the surface of the painting with a warm, glowing palette.
Marks
Artist's signature, lower left: Bierstadt/65
Provenance
Private collection; purchased by Berry-Hill Galleries, New York, NY before 1986; purchased from them by the Gallery in 1992
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- American Paintings IV Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc. 1986
- Albert Bierstadt: Art & Enterprise The Brooklyn Museum 2/8/1991 - 2/17/1992
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Article Title: New Acquisition Fills Major Gap in American Collection. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Memorial Art Gallery. Gallery Notes. Rochester, New York: Memorial Art Gallery, 1935-1995. Issue Date: March-April 1993. Page Number: 6, 9
- Article Author: Buckley, Laurene. Article Title: 'The Sierras near Lake Tahoe' by Albert Bierstadt. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Porticus. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery Volume Number: XIV-XVI Issue Date: 1991-1993. Page Number: 43-51, Figure Number: 1
- Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc.. American Paintings IV. New York, NY: Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., 1986.
- Article Scope: Entry. Nancy K. Anderson. Albert Bierstadt: Art & Enterprise. New York, NY: Hudson Hills Press w/ The Brooklyn Museum, 1990.
- Article Title: A Bierstadt for the Gallery. Article Scope: Mention and reproduction. Rochester Review. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press Issue Date: Sprint-Summer 1993. Page Number: 32
- Grant Holcomb, III, ed. Voices in the Gallery: Writers on Art. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2001.
- MAGazine. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery
- Memorial Art Gallery. ARTiculate. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2000--.
- Article Author: Fischer, Diane P.. Article Title: Albert Bierstadt: The Sierras Near Lake Tahoe, California. Article Scope: Chapter and reproduction. Marjorie B. Searl, ed. Seeing America: painting and sculpture from the collection of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2006. Page Number: 85-88
- Article Author: Sangree, Margaret. Article Title: The Watchful. Article Scope: Poetry. Community Voices in the Gallery: a Collection of Writings by Members of our Community Inspired by Works of Art at the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2009. Page Number: 15
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Creating, Performing, and Participating in the Arts
Examines seven 19th century artworks in the Memorial Art Gallery, with questions and hands-on exercises for students.
Seeing America Inservice
Materials from a teacher in-service presentation Spring 2008
Seeing America
Chapter on Albert Bierstadt's The Sierras Near Lake Tahoe, California, written by Diane P. Fischer.
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