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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…
Bierstadt: Forerunners to Bierstadt
Bierstadt’s painting The Last of the Buffalo served as a final, desperate call to save a species from near-certain annihilation. But he…
Bierstadt: Decimation of the Herds
Bierstadt used art as a platform to denounce the decimation of America’s most iconic and largest mammal. Some of his paintings present…
Bierstadt: Stereoscopic Images
In the fall of 1859, an art journal, The Crayon, reported: “Bierstadt has returned lately from the Rocky Mountains…and has brought with…