Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Herbert A. Vance; fund of an anonymous donor; Wesley M. Dixon Jr. Fund and Endowment; Henry Horner Straus and Mr. and Mrs. Frederick G. Wacker Jr. endowment funds; through prior acquisitions of various donors, including Samuel P. Avery Endowment, Mrs. George A. Carpenter, Frederick S. Colburn, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Feinberg, Field Museum of Natural History, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Harding, International Minerals and Chemicals Corp., Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Loeff, Mrs. Frank C. Miller, Mahlan D. Moulds, Mrs. Clive Runnells, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Stone, and the Charles H. and Mary F.S. Worcester Collection
Catalogue
- Year
- 1863
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 111.8 × 91.4 cm (44 × 36 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Albert Bierstadt
Artist
Painting
Among the most dramatic works of America’s first century, Albert Bierstadt’s vast, sweeping canvases captured the rugged sublimity of the Western landscape, and memorialized the heady era of manifest destiny.
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Record
Verified by WattsOS- Artist
- Albert Bierstadt
- Year
- 1863
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 111.8 × 91.4 cm (44 × 36 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1863-007826
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified