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 BIERSTADT, Albert (1830-1902)
Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie
London: Thomas McLean, 1869. Lithograph, printed in colours, by H.M. Long. Sheet size: 18 1/2 x 32 1/4 inches.
Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) was the nineteenth century chronicler par excellence of the American West. He undertook several expeditions to the Rocky Mountains and Yosemite Valley, where he made sketches of what would later become his most famous paintings.
This particular work depicts light breaking through a bank of thunderclouds above a valley. Indians on foot and on horseback dash down a mountainside toward an encampment of teepees on the valley floor. This image epitomizes American nineteenth century landscape painting at its most intense and rapturous.
This chromolithograph was issued by Thomas McLean as a pair to The Rocky Mountains (Landers Peak). It was reported at the time that no fewer than twenty, and as many as thirty, stones were used to capture the rich, sumptuous palette of the original painting, which is now in the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
Nancy Anderson and Linda S. Ferber, Albert Bierstadt Art & Enterprise, pp. 274-275, number 79, figure 90, illustrated in colour page 292; Deak, Picturing America, number 811 illustrated.
#17588 $37,500.00  
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 BIERSTADT, Albert (1830-1902)
The Rocky Mountains (Lander's Peak)
New York: Edward Bierstadt, 1866. Steel engraving by James Smillie. Signed in pencil by James Smillie. After the painting completed in 1863. Sheet size: 16 3/4 x 27 7/8 inches.
In 1859, Bierstadt joined an expedition to the West led by Colonel Frederick W. Lander. This work was painted four years later in New York as a tribute to Lander who died in 1862 after a distinguished military career. Bierstadt found it fitting to name the central summit in memory of his fallen friend.
The painting was a huge success and was quickly bought by the English railroad magnate James McHenry for $25,000. Its beauty lies in Bierstadt's faithful delineation of the Shoshone Indian village encampment and carefully rendered foliage in the foreground with a middle distance featuring a reflective body of water and the exaggerated snow-capped peak in the background towering over the entire scene. It perfectly embodies the idea of Manifest Destiny and appealed to the imaginations of most Americans who had only read about our untamed frontier. The oil painting is in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Due to its huge popular success, Bierstadt immediately asked James Smillie, America's premier engraver, to produce an engraving. However, it was not until December 1866, after three laborious years in the making, that this engraving was published.
Nancy Anderson and Linda S. Ferber, Albert Bierstadt Art & Enterprise, pp. 272-273, number 77, illustrated figure 80.
#3311$15,000.00
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 BIERSTADT, Albert (1830-1902)
The Rocky Mountains (Lander's Peak)
London: Thomas McLean, 1869. Lithograph, printed in colours, by Jacob Lutz, printed by Kell Brothers. Sheet size: 19 x 32 inches.
In 1859, Bierstadt joined an expedition to the West led by Colonel Frederick W. Lander. This work was painted four years later in New York as a tribute to Lander who died in 1862 after a distinguished military career. Bierstadt found it fitting to name the central summit in memory of his fallen friend.
The painting was a huge success and was quickly bought by the English railroad magnate James McHenry for $25,000. Its beauty lies in Bierstadt's faithful delineation of the Shoshone Indian village encampment and carefully rendered foliage in the foreground, with a middle distance featuring a reflective body of water and the exaggerated snow-capped peak in the background towering over the entire scene. The chromolithograph, printed by the Kell Brothers, preserves Bierstadt's sumptuous palette.
This Western paradise immediately appealed to the imagination of most Americans, who had only read about the untamed frontier. The original painting is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Nancy Anderson and Linda S. Ferber, Albert Bierstadt Art & Enterprise, pp. 274-275, number 78, figure 90, illustrated in colour page 291.
#9797$37,500.00
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 BIERSTADT, Albert (1830-1902)
The Rocky Mountains (Lander's Peak)
New York: Edward Bierstadt, 1866. Steel engraving by James Smillie. Proof before title, signed by Bierstadt and Smillie. After the painting, completed in 1863. Fine condition. Sheet size: 23 1/2 x 34 inches.
In 1859, Bierstadt joined an expedition to the West led by Colonel Frederick W. Lander. This work was painted four years later in New York as a tribute to Lander who died in 1862 after a distinguished military career. Bierstadt found it fitting to name the central summit in memory of his fallen friend.
The painting was a huge success and was quickly bought by the English railroad magnate James McHenry for $25,000. Its beauty lies in Bierstadt's faithful delineation of the Shoshone Indian village encampment and carefully rendered foliage in the foreground with a middle distance featuring a reflective body of water and the exaggerated snow-capped peak in the background towering over the entire scene. It perfectly embodies the idea of Manifest Destiny and appealed to the imaginations of most Americans who had only read about our untamed frontier. The oil painting is in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Due to its huge popular success, Bierstadt immediately asked James Smillie, America's premier engraver, to produce an engraving. However, it was not until December 1866, after three laborious years in the making, that this engraving was published.
Nancy Anderson and Linda S. Ferber, Albert Bierstadt Art & Enterprise, pp. 272-273, number 77, illustrated figure 80.
#20722$18,500.00
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