9 Albert Bierstadt Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains,...

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Description: Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California

TitleAmong the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California

Creator nameBierstadt, Albert

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1868

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions72 × 120 in. (183 × 305 cm)

LocationSmithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=2059

Accession number1977.107.1

SubjectsSierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)America--Discovery and exploration--Pictorial worksHudson River school of landscape painting

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Introduction

Hélène Valance, Jane M. Todd (Translator)

Nocturne: Night in American Art, 1890–1917

~In 1890 a short comic piece appeared in Puck’s Library under the title “A Chapter in Art,” in which the paintings stored away in a house’s attic begin to talk. The main speaker in this exchange, a view of Mount Popocatépetl erupting, traces its career from fame to oblivion:

Author

Hélène Valance, Jane M. Todd (Translator)

PublisherYale University Press

PublisherTerra Foundation for American Art

Related print edition pages: pp.1-15

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00087.003

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-16983&redirecttoanchor=19250

Chapter subject tags:Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903Nocturne painting, American--19th centuryElectric lighting--HistoryVisual culture--History--19th centuryJaponism

1. “Curious Historical Artistic Data”: Art History and Western American Art

Nancy K. Anderson

Discovered Lands, Invented Pasts: Transforming Visions of the American West

In a recent essay Wanda Corn noted that before achieving respectability late in the twentieth century, American art had long suffered as “the impoverished, unwanted stepchild of art history.” Wanda M. Corn, “Coming of Age: Historical...

Author

Nancy K. Anderson

PublisherYale University Art Gallery

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.1-35

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00038.004

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Chapter subject tags:West (U.S.)--In artAmerica--Discovery and exploration--Pictorial worksArt and historyArt criticism--History

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