View of Mount Baker (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
1995.379.4oo recto
Tags
Art Historical Context
Albert Bierstadt's *View of Mount Baker ( Sketchbook)*, created in 1890, offers an intimate glimpse into the majestic of the American Pacific Northwest. The German-American artist, renowned for his sweeping, luminous depictions of the Hudson River Valley and the Rocky Mountains, captured this quick study of the snow-capped volcano during his later travels. At just 4 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches, the graphite drawing on wove paper reveals Bierstadt's keen eye for nature's grandeur, distilling the mountain's rugged form and hazy atmosphere into a portable sketchbook page. As a cornerstone of the Hudson R...
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 ...