Nancy McClure
Bierstadt in Paris
When Bierstadt’s painting The Last of the Buffalo was displayed in Paris in 1889, his urgent message about the looming extinction of…
Bierstadt: In Service of Manifest Destiny?
Albert Bierstadt’s paintings may have contributed to the profound changes occurring in the American West in the late 1800s. Across Bierstadt’s thirty-year…
Bierstadt: Buffalo Trails
We hope you enjoy the short, five-minute video (the next stop, iScout 172), which calls your attention to aspects of Albert Bierstadt’s…
Bierstadt: Worthington Whittredge and William Holbrook Beard
Albert Bierstadt studied art in Germany alongside noted American landscape and animal painters Worthington Whittredge and William Holbrook Beard. The three later…
Bierstadt: William Jacob Hays, Champion of the Bison
William Jacob Hays, a friend of Bierstadt’s, was awestruck by the bison herds along the Missouri, and wrote, “On my way down…
Bierstadt: George Catlin and the National Park Idea
When George Catlin traveled up the Missouri River into present-day Montana, he admired the Native American peoples of the Great Plains and…