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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Mountain Brook
    Albert Bierstadt. Mountain Brook, 1863. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00001603

    Mountain Brook

    by Albert Bierstadt

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Signed, lower left: "A. Bierstadt"

    Provenance

    Oliver Kelly, Ohio, before 1900; by descent in the family until 1989; Hirschl and Adler Galleries, New York; Private collection, Los Angeles; Michael N. Altman and Company, New York, by 1997; the Art Institute of Chicago,1997.

    Exhibition history

    New York, National Academy of Design, Thirty–Eighth Annual Exhibition, Apr. 14–June 24, 1863, cat. 6. Brooklyn Museum, Albert Bierstadt, Art and Enterprise, Feb. 8–May 6, 1991, cat. 36; San Francisco, Fine Arts Museum, June 6–Sept. 2, 1991, Washington, DC, National Gallery of Arts, Nov. 3, 1991–Feb. 17, 1992. Washington DC, National Gallery of Art, East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth Century American Landscape Photography, Mar. 12–July 16, 2017; New Orleans Museum of Art, Oct. 5, 2017–Jan. 7, 2018, cat. 82 (Washington DC only).

    Publications

    Barry Gray (R.B.Coffin), New York Leader, January 17, 1863. Fitz Hugh Ludlow, New York Evening Post, May 22, 1863. New York Times, April 24, 1963, 14. Gordon Hendricks, “The First Three Western Journeys of Albert Bierstadt,” Art Bulletin, 46 (September, 1964), 363, no. 244. Gordon Hendricks, Albert Bierstadt: Painter of the American West (Harry N. Abrams, 1974), 117. Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998). Steven Conn and Andrew Walker, “The History in the Art: Painting the Civil War,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, 1 (2001), 60–81, fig. 12. Clare Kunny and Andrew Walker, “Introduction,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, 1 (2001), 5–6. Angela Miller, “Albert Bierstadt, Landscape Aesthetics, and the Meanings of the West in the Civil War Era,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, 1 (2001), 40–59, fig. 1. Margaret Rose Vendryes, “Race Identity/ Identifying Race: Robert S. Duncanson and Nineteenth–Century American Painting," Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, 1 (2001), 98–99.

    Open-access museum data

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Albert Bierstadt (American, born Solingen, Prussia, now Germany, 1830–1902)
    Date
    1863
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    111.8 × 91.4 cm (44 × 36 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    painting
    Place
    United States
    Department
    Arts of the Americas
    Credit line
    Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Herbert A. Vance; fund of an anonymous donor; Wesley M. Dixon Jr. Fund and Endowment; Henry Horner Straus and Mr. and Mrs. Frederick G. Wacker Jr. endowment funds; through prior acquisitions of various donors, including Samuel P. Avery Endowment, Mrs. George A. Carpenter, Frederick S. Colburn, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Feinberg, Field Museum of Natural History, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Harding, International Minerals and Chemicals Corp., Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Loeff, Mrs. Frank C. Miller, Mahlan D. Moulds, Mrs. Clive Runnells, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Stone, and the Charles H. and Mary F.S. Worcester Collection
    Accession no.
    1997.365

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