Bierstadt was born and later educated in Germany, and raised in New Bedford, Massachusetts. As one of America’s foremost landscape painters he was responsible for shaping a vision of America as the new Eden. His monumental canvases were based upon sketches and photographs he made in 1859, when he accompanied the federally sponsored Lander Survey to the Rocky Mountains.
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Mirror Lake, Yosemite Valley, 1864 Oil on canvas 21 3/4 x 30 1/8" (55.2 x 76.5cm) Santa Barbara Museum of Art |
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