Albert Bierstadt

How Carleton Watkins’s photographs shaped Yosemite Valley’s future

Edit The Guardian 25 May 2016

Abraham Lincoln’s 1864 law to preserve California’s Yosemite Valley may have helped create the National Park Service but it was Carleton Watkins’ striking images that inspired the president to act. This article originally appeared in Smithsonian magazine ... Twitter ... Twitter ... The great landscape painter Albert Bierstadt promptly headed to Yosemite. Ralph Waldo Emerson said Watkins’ images of sequoias “are proud curiosities here to all eyes”....

Environmental advocacy lives on through art

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 18 May 2016

Art has played an influential role in the modern environmental movement, dating all the way back to Albert Bierstadt’s 19th century landscape paintings and Carleton Watkins’ photographs of Yosemite Valley that moved President Abraham Lincoln to protect the area as parkland ... Roosevelt’s hands, solidifying the president’s resolve to create King’s Canyon National Park ... > ....

Picasso Suite of 100 Etchings Given to Colby Museum’s Permanent Collection to Be Highlighted in Summer Exhibit (Colby College)

Edit Public Technologies 06 May 2016

(Source. Colby College) ... The Lunders also gifted their renowned collection of American art to the museum in 2013 ... Etching, 15 3/16 x 19 13/16 in. (38.7 x 50.4 cm) ... Greene ... Major works by American masters including John Singleton Copley, Gilbert Stuart, Albert Bierstadt, Winslow Homer, Mary Cassatt, and William Merritt Chase form the core of the historical collection, along with significant holdings of American folk art ... Admission is free....

Postal Service Previews Spectacular National Parks Stamp Pane (USPS - The United States Postal Service)

Edit Public Technologies 02 May 2016

The third shows a detail from the oil-on-canvas painting 'Scenery in the Grand Tetons' by Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902), currently held at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park in Vermont ... The oil-on-canvas painting Scenery in the Grand Tetons by Albert Bierstadt (detail; first row, second from right) is in the collection of Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park....

Postal Service Previews Spectacular National Parks Stamp Pane (NPS - National Park Service)

Edit Public Technologies 28 Apr 2016

(Source. NPS - National Park Service) Postal Service Previews Spectacular National Parks Stamp Pane. WASHINGTON - The U.S ... The first-day-of-issue will be June 2. View the complete set of stamps. Designing the National Parks Stamp Pane ... Top Row ... The oil-on-canvas painting Scenery in the Grand Tetons by Albert Bierstadt (detail; first row, second from right) is in the collection of Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park ... (noodl....

Painting at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park 12th of 16 stamps celebrating National Park Service’s centennial (USPS - The United States Postal Service)

Edit Public Technologies 27 Apr 2016

'Albert Bierstadt's painting represents the convergence of artistic, literary and political attention toward America's scenic beauty in the 19th century, which helped establish conservation as a national value and laid the foundation for the first national parks a century ago.' ... Scenery in the Grand Tetons [detail] Albert Bierstadt, Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, MABI 2843....

Washington Nat'l Opera finishes 'Ring Cycle' after 10 years

Edit Times Union 20 Apr 2016

WASHINGTON (AP) — For the Washington National Opera, completing Wagner's "Ring Cycle" has been an endeavor worthy of its epic subject ... Later scenes depict Wotan and his cronies as American industrialists ... So she's taken inspiration from the paintings of Albert Bierstadt and photographs of Ansel Adams to make the opening scene of "Rheingold" more clearly an illustration of "the perfect natural world" before it is despoiled by greed....

Postal Service Previews 12th of 16 Stamps Celebrating National Park Service’s Centennial: Stamp Depicts a Painting at the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park that Highlights the Conservation Movement that Led to the First National Parks (NPS - National Park Service)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Apr 2016

'Albert Bierstadt's painting represents the convergence of artistic, literary and political attention toward America's scenic beauty in the 19th century, which helped establish conservation as a national value and laid the foundation for the first national parks a century ago.' ... Scenery in the Grand Tetons [detail] Albert Bierstadt, Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, MABI 2843....

Western art from NYC collection on display at State Museum

Edit The Oklahoman 12 Apr 2016

ALBANY, N.Y ... the land, Native Americans, wildlife and cowboys ... Other artists with works in the exhibit include renowned painters Albert Bierstadt and Charles M. Russell . ....

Renowned Artist and Architect Maya Lin to Speak at Colby College (Colby College)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Mar 2016

(Source. Colby College). Maya Lin, Portrait by Walter Smith ... She is the first in a new artist-in-residence series spearheaded by Colby President David A. Greene ... Limit one per visitor ... Major works by American masters including John Singleton Copley, Gilbert Stuart, Albert Bierstadt, Winslow Homer, Mary Cassatt, and William Merritt Chase form the core of the historical collection, along with significant holdings of American folk art ... (noodl....

DU given $10 million art collection (Slideshow)

Edit Business Journal 11 Mar 2016

John Madden has gifted the The University of Denver with an art collection valued at $10 million, the university announced Thursday. Madden, who developed the Fiddler's Green campus in Greenwood Village, donated 120 artworks from artists ranging from Western painters Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran, to American masters Thomas Hart Benton and Robert Rauschenberg, to contemporary Chinese-born American painter Hung Liu ... ....

Poisoned Landscapes

Edit New Yorker 11 Mar 2016

These include such visions of the North American continent as the Luminist paintings of Thomas Cole and Frederic Edwin Church, notably of the Hudson River Valley; the massive landscapes of Albert Bierstadt, both of the Hudson River Valley and of the American West; and the (lesser-known) photographs of Timothy ......

DU gets $10 million art gift from developer John Madden

Edit Denver Post 10 Mar 2016

Gift doubles the value of the university's art holdings and adds work of American masters, including Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran....