In this image, Bierstadt sits in his studio working on a western scene as an audience of peers looks on. Behind him hangs a painted… Read More
Albert Bierstadt exhibition: generous donors
Albert Bierstadt: Witness to a Changing West would not have been possible without the generous support of many donors. For this funding in support of… Read More
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 American bison was… Read More
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 career, his depictions… Read More
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 paintings, The Buffalo… Read More
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 became neighbors in… Read More
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 the river I… Read More
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 observed the bison… Read More
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 was not the… Read More
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 the bison as… Read More
