Giant Redwood Trees Of California

Title

Giant Redwood Trees Of California

Artist

Eric Glaser

Medium

Painting - Oil On Canvas

Description

"Giant Redwood Trees of California"

Artist: Albert Bierstadt (German-American, 1830-1902)

Title: Giant Redwood Trees of California

Genre: Landscape art

Date: 1874

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Dimensions: Height: 65.5 in (166.3 cm); Width: 54.5 in (138.4 cm) (With frame)

Collection: Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield MA USA

Albert Bierstadt was a German-American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. He joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion to paint the scenes. He was not the first artist to record the sites, but he was the foremost painter of them for the remainder of the 19th century.

Bierstadt was born in Prussia, but his family moved to the United States when he was one year old. He returned to study painting for several years in Düsseldorf. He became part of the second generation of the Hudson River School in New York, an informal group of like-minded painters who started painting along the Hudson River. Their style was based on carefully detailed paintings with romantic, almost glowing lighting, sometimes called luminism. Bierstadt was an important interpreter of the western landscape, and he is also grouped with the Rocky Mountain School.

Text Credit: Google Arts & Culture

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Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Additional image editing by Eric Glaser

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