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David Cook Galleries

 http://www.davidcookfineart.com

1637 Wazee Street Denver, CO 80202

Tel: (303) 623-8181
Fax: (303) 623-4817
Email: [email protected]

weekdays: Tuesday-Friday 10:30AM-6:00PM
weekend: Saturday 10:30AM-6:00PM

Questroyal Fine Art, LLC

 http://www.questroyalfineart.com

903 Park Avenue (@79th St.) Third Floor New York, NY 10075

Tel: (212) 744-3586
Fax: (212) 585-3828
Email: [email protected]

weekdays: 10AM-6PM
weekend: Saturday 10AM-5PM

Denenberg Fine Arts

 http://www.denenbergfinearts.com

417 North San Vicente Boulevard West Hollywood, CA 90048-1811

Tel: (310) 360-9360
Fax: (310) 499-5244
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Albert Bierstadt

(1830-1902)

In 1859, at the age of 29, Albert Bierstadt accompanied a government expedition on a painting trip that would establish him as one of the most popular landscape artists of his time. He traveled with his sketch pad, paints and canvas on the back of a mule, past the Missouri River and deep into the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming. There he found his greatest subject matter, the mysterious, magnificent, forests, plains, indigenous wildlife and peoples of the West. His later journey from 1863 to 1870 to California proved to be a culmination of his Rocky Mountain efforts. Born in Germany, Bierstadt spent his childhood in New Bedford, Massachusetts. As a young child he returned to Europe for sophisticated art studies and extensive travel through the countryside and Alps of Germany and Italy. Following his 1859 trip to Wyoming, Bierstadt moved to New York from which he would make many excursions west - as far as California where he painted the first known rendition of Yosemite Valley in 1864. That same year, the artist's The Rocky Mountains sold for $25,000, the highest price yet paid for a work of art. Today, that painting is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Bierstadt's popularity introduced him to many famous people of the time, including the poet Longfellow, The Grand Duke Alexis of Russia and President Rutherford Hayes. Throughout his lifetime he traveled back and forth across the continent and to Europe with his wife Rosalie. Today, nearly every state owns a Bierstadt painting, either in public or private collections.

ARTWORK: Albert Bierstadt

Bierstadt-A Trail through the Trees
A Trail through the Trees
Oil on board
20½ x 29 7/16 inches

Questroyal Fine Art, LLC

Bierstadt-Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls
Oil on paper laid down on board
20⅛ x 28 inches

Questroyal Fine Art, LLC

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The Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak (Wyoming)
Chromolithograph
16 ¾ x 27 ¾ inches

David Cook Galleries


Forest near Saratoga
Oil on canvas
21 3/4 x 28 1/2 inches

Questroyal Fine Art, LLC