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Home > Archives for Witness to a Changing West

Center of the West Bierstadt exhibition set to close September 30

September 7, 2018 by Nancy McClure

[Fig. 1] Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902). "The Last of the Buffalo," ca. 1888. Oil on canvas. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Trust Fund Purchase. 2.60

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.… Read More

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Bierstadt in his Studio

July 5, 2018 by Nancy McClure

Bierstadt Brothers. BIERSTADT AT HIS EASEL, 1859. Stereograph (detail). Collection of William L. Schaeffer.

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

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Albert Bierstadt exhibition: generous donors

July 5, 2018 by Nancy McClure

[Fig. 1] Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902). "The Last of the Buffalo," ca. 1888. Oil on canvas. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Trust Fund Purchase. 2.60

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

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Bierstadt in Paris

July 3, 2018 by Nancy McClure

EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE, PARIS, 1889, black and white photographic print, 8 x 10 inches.

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

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Bierstadt: In Service of Manifest Destiny?

July 3, 2018 by Nancy McClure

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

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Bierstadt: Buffalo Trails

July 3, 2018 by Nancy McClure

Albert Bierstadt (American, born Germany, 1830–1902). The Buffalo Trail, 1867. Oil on canvas, 31.875 x 48 inches. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts. Gift of Martha C. Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Paintings, 1815–1865. 47.1268

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

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Bierstadt: Worthington Whittredge and William Holbrook Beard

July 3, 2018 by Nancy McClure

William Holbrook Beard (1824 –1900). ON THE PRAIRIE, 1869. Colored engraving. Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX, 1964.52

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

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Tagged With: Albert Bierstadt, Bayard Taylor, General John Pope, special exhibition, William Holbrook Beard, Witness to a Changing West, Worthington Whittredge

 

Bierstadt: William Jacob Hays, Champion of the Bison

July 3, 2018 by Nancy McClure

William Jacob Hays (1830–1875). A HERD OF BISON CROSSING THE MISSOURI RIVER, 1863. Oil on canvas. Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, WY. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Trust Fund Purchase. 3.60

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

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Bierstadt: George Catlin and the National Park Idea

July 3, 2018 by Nancy McClure

George Catlin (1796–1872). Buffalo Chase with Bows and Lances, 1832–1833. Oil on canvas. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr., 1985. 1985.55.410

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

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Bierstadt: Forerunners to Bierstadt

July 3, 2018 by Nancy McClure

William Jacob Hays (1830–1875). A HERD OF BISON CROSSING THE MISSOURI RIVER, 1863. Oil on canvas. Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, WY. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Trust Fund Purchase. 3.60

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

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