If this summer’s visitors to the Buffalo Bill Center of the West are any indication, nineteenth-century artist Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902) has a whole new following. This fall, the Center’s exhibition […]
Witness to a Changing West
Bierstadt in his Studio
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 hide, and on his easel […]
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 the scholarly catalogue and major […]
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 amplified to an international audience. […]
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 of an idealized western landscape […]
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 Trail, The Buffalo Trail: Impending […]