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 ...

Installation view of "Kay WalkingStick/Hudson River School" at the Addison Gallery of American Art. Left: Frederick A. Butman ...

Your first thought about the landscape paintings that dominated the American art market in the nineteenth century is probably about the grand ones: mammoth canvases by Frederic Edwin Church or Albert ...