CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The collection was acquired by the Archives of American Art in a series of accessions between 1955 and 2001. Six letters were donated by Charles ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Albert Bierstadt's (1830–1902) large ...

Albert Bierstadt was a German-American painter best known for his grandiose landscapes of the 19th-century American West. Born on January 7, 1830 in Solingen, Prussia, Bierstadt's family immigrated to ...

One thing Laura Fry has learned during the nearly three years she has spent working on Gilcrease Museum’s latest exhibit is that, when it comes to artist Albert Bierstadt, sometimes smaller is better.

FRANCONIA, N.H. — Did it matter, really, that Albert Bierstadt’s rapturous 19th-century visions of the American west were far, far too good to be true? It depends how much truth mattered back then, in ...

Paintings that are part of a new exhibit at the Gilcrease Museum are more than just pretty. The artwork helped to save Bison in the U.S. Albert Bierstadt was best known for his big dramatic landscapes ...

Art history, like all history, fills its pages with figures who died tragically young. Raphael, Caravaggio, Van Gogh, T.C. Cannon. One of those names will be less familiar to most than the others. The ...