A negligent moment meant the end for a ship and a late-career breakthrough for an artist. It was Aug. 28, 1889, a windy morning at the Loring cannery, roughly 20 miles north of what is now Ketchikan ...

Albert Bierstadt was a German-American painter best known for his grandiose landscapes of the 19th-century American West. Born on January 7, 1830 in Solingen, Prussia, Bierstadt's family immigrated to ...

Birmingham art lovers might notice a familiar image when buying stamps at the post office. At first glance, a light-strewn image of Yosemite Valley on a new commemorative stamp is a dead ringer for ...

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975. Hendricks, Gordon, "Albert Bierstadt: painter of the American West," NY: H. N. Abrams, published in association with the Amon Carter ...

The Buffalo Bill Center of the West receives Bierstadt’s "Wind River Country, Wyoming" as a gift, now prominently displayed in the Whitney Western Art Museum. [T]o have this particular painting ...

15 1/2 x 10 3/4 in. (39.4 x 27.3 cm.) Frame: 21 1/2 x 16 1/2 in. (54.6 x 41.9 cm.) ...