Albert Bierstadt was a German-American painter best known for his grandiose landscapes of the 19th-century American West. Born on January 7, 1830 in Solingen, Prussia, Bierstadt's family immigrated to ...

Anyone who stands in the Timken’s American gallery will observe that these two paintings share quite a lot compositionally. Monkman knows Bierstadt’s paintings of Yosemite even if they have ...