Intro to Modern Art History
Bierstadt, Albert - The Old Mill (1855)
Albert Bierstadt did not start with epic sunsets and towering peak drama. In 1855 he was just another sweating student...
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Bierstadt, Albert - Mount Corcoran (1877)
Albert Bierstadt didn't care about truth. He cared about cash. In 1877 he built a monster canvas of a mountain...
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Bierstadt, Albert - Lake Lucerne (1858)
Albert Bierstadt engineered a ten-foot monster canvas to conquer the American art world. He scaled up quiet European field sketches...
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Bierstadt, Albert - Looking Down Yosemite Valle...
The Great American Illusion in Yosemite Albert Bierstadt did not paint Yosemite Valley because he was a faithful documentarian of...
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Bierstadt, Albert - The Last of the Buffalo (1...
In 1888, Albert Bierstadt watched the American frontier bleed out. The art elites in Paris rejected his massive, tragic tribute...
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Bierstadt, Albert - The Rocky Mountains, Lander...
In 1863 America was bleeding out in a brutal civil war. Albert Bierstadt offered rich Easterners a gorgeous lie. He...
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Bierstadt, Albert - Guerrilla Warfare (1861)
Albert Bierstadt traded his massive mountain peaks for a tiny piece of wood in 1861. He crawled into the dark...
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Bierstadt, Albert - Emigrants Crossing the Plai...
Albert Bierstadt painted a high-priced real estate brochure for railroad barons. He rebranded the American West. He took a brutal,...
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Bierstadt, Albert - Donner Lake from the Summit...
Albert Bierstadt did not paint Donner Lake for the view. A railroad baron paid him to make industrial destruction look...
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Bierstadt, Albert - Cho-looke, the Yosemite Fal...
Albert Bierstadt manufactured escape routes for a country bleeding itself dry in 1864. By stretching granite cliffs and drenching the...
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