Albert Bierstadt, grandiose landscape painter, is best remembered for accomplishing for the West what the somewhat earlier Hudson River painters had accomplished for the Catskills. Employing huge canvases befitting his subjects, Bierstadt was the first artist to capture the monumentality of the American wilderness, thereby satisfying the contemporary public's desire for depictions of the mostly unknown and uninhabited West.
Although landscape painting brought him the fame and fortune he yearned for, a large part of Bierstadt's work included historical and genre-like paintings of frontier life, as the 32 full-color plates in this monograph reveal. Author Matthew Baigell suggests that there existed a separate persona within Bierstadt to accompany each painting style.
Matthew Baigell is Distinguished Professor in the Art History Department at Rutgers University.
84 pages. 10 ¼ x 11 in. (26 x 28 cm). 32 color plates. 9 black-and-white illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
Although landscape painting brought him the fame and fortune he yearned for, a large part of Bierstadt's work included historical and genre-like paintings of frontier life, as the 32 full-color plates in this monograph reveal. Author Matthew Baigell suggests that there existed a separate persona within Bierstadt to accompany each painting style.
Matthew Baigell is Distinguished Professor in the Art History Department at Rutgers University.
84 pages. 10 ¼ x 11 in. (26 x 28 cm). 32 color plates. 9 black-and-white illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
