View of Mount Baker (from Sketchbook)

Art Historical Context

Albert Bierstadt's *View of Mount Baker ( Sketchbook)*, created in 1890, the majestic form of the volcanic peak in Washington's Cascade Range through a quick, on-site graphite sketch. At just 4 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches, this intimate drawing on wove paper reveals the artist's portable fieldwork during his later years, a time when he continued exploring America's dramatic landscapes despite changing tastes in art. As a leading figure in the Hudson River School, Bierstadt was renowned for his grand, luminous oil paintings that romanticized the American West, evoking national pride during westward exp...

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 ...