Who created "Alaskan Coast Range"?

Alaskan Coast Range was created by Albert Bierstadt in ca. 1889.

When was "Alaskan Coast Range" created?

This artwork was created ca. 1889.

What medium is "Alaskan Coast Range"?

Alaskan Coast Range is Painting.

Is "Alaskan Coast Range" in the public domain?

Yes, Alaskan Coast Range is in the public domain and available for free download under CC0 license.

Alaskan Coast Range

Albert Bierstadt

ca. 1889

Medium

Painting

Classification

Painting

Department

Smithsonian Collection

Museum

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Credit

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Orrin Wickersham June

Accession Number

1967.136.7

Tags

Alaskacoastmountain

About this artwork

Albert Bierstadt traveled through western Canada in 1889 on the Canadian Pacific Railway. He headed to Alaska by steamer in search of "wild places in the mountains," but was shipwrecked in Loring Bay. He lived with the other passengers in Native American huts and filled two books with drawings and paintings of his surroundings. (Anderson and Ferber, Albert Bierstadt: Art and Enterprise, 1990) This painting of the Alaskan coastline is an oil sketch, probably done on the spot as a study for a late...

About the Artist

Albert Bierstadt · 1830–1902

Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) was a German-American landscape painter renowned for his monumental, luminous depictions of the American West. As a prominent member of the second generation of the Hudson River School and the Rocky Mountain School, Bierstadt created sweeping panoramas that captured the sublime grandeur of untamed wilderness with unprecedented theatrical scale and romantic vision. His ...

Alaskan Coast Range

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