Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California
1865 oil painting by Albert Bierstadt
Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California | |
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Artist | Albert Bierstadt |
Year | 1865 (1865) |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 163.83 cm × 245.11 cm (64.50 in × 96.50 in) |
Location | Birmingham Museum of Art |
Looking Down the Yosemite Valley, California is an 1865 painting by the German-American painter Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902).[1]
It was Bierstadt's first large-scale Yosemite picture, a subject for which he would become well known. It presents a view of one of America's most scenic spots. Based on sketches made during a visit in 1863, Bierstadt paints the valley from a vantage point just above the Merced River, looking due west with the prospect framed by El Capitan on the right, and Sentinel Rock on the left; the spire of Middle Cathedral Rock is visible in the distance.
See also
References
- ^ "Looking Down Yosemite Valley Returns". Birmingham Art Museum. Archived from the original on August 16, 2011. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
External links
- American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on this painting (see index)
- Looking Down the Yosemite Valley, California Picturing America : teachers resource book
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Albert Bierstadt
- List of works
- On the Platte River, Nebraska (1863)
- The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak (1863)
- Cho-looke, the Yosemite Fall (1864)
- Valley of the Yosemite (1864)
- Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California (1865)
- The Rocky Mountains (1866)
- A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie (1866)
- Among the Sierra Nevada, California (1868)
- Mount Hood (1869)
- Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast (1870)
- Indians in Council, California (1872)
- California Spring (1875)
- Sunrise on the Matterhorn (after 1875)
- The Falls of St. Anthony (1880)
- Alaskan Coast Range (1889)
- Edward Bierstadt (brother)
- Hudson River School
- Luminism (American art style)
- Mount Bierstadt
- Bierstadt Lake