Landscape with Trees and Figure in a Canoe (from Sketchbook)
1890
Medium
Graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
4 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. (12.1 x 19.7 cm)
Classification
Drawing
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Marguerite H. Rohlfs, 1995
Accession Number
1995.379.4aaa verso
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About this artwork
This 1890 graphite sketch from Albert Bierstadt's sketchbook captures the American West's wilderness landscapes that defined his career and shaped 19th-century American visual culture. Though modest in size (4 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches) and medium, this drawing connects to Bierstadt's monumental oil paintings of Rocky Mountain peaks, Yosemite Valley, and Western scenes that earned him international fame and commercial success during the 1860s-1870s. The canoe figure suggests Native American or frontier...
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 ...