Sunrise, Yosemite Valley
c. 1870 · Oil on canvas · Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth
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About this work
- Artist
- Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902)
- Year
- c. 1870
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 92.7 × 133 cm
- Collection
- Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth
- Movement
- Hudson River School
Morning light floods Yosemite Valley, gilding the mist above the valley floor and the trees along the river while the granite walls catch the first sun. Bierstadt called Yosemite the most magnificent place he had ever been, and after his first visit in 1863 he painted many such views, composed freely from its landmarks rather than copied from a single vantage point. This canvas dates from about 1870. A contemporary critic wrote that the golden valley looked as if it had been painted in an Eldorado, a distant land of gold heard of in song and story, and yet was real. Pictures like this shaped the popular image of Yosemite and fed the sentiment that led to its designation as a national park in 1890, while saying little of the Ahwahnechee people whose home it had been for thousands of years. It is in the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth.
This print reproduces the whole work, uncropped, from a high-resolution scan of the original. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Morning light gilding mist above the valley floor and granite walls, for a bedroom, living room or hallway at 24×16 or 36×24 in black or natural oak. A cream, sage or pale yellow wall; it suits a wall that catches the first light.
- Style
- Hudson River School painting
- Era
- 19th century (c. 1870)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Mood
- calm
- Rooms
- living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. Prints at 18×12, 24×16, 36×24 in — 18×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 24×16 above a console or sideboard; 36×24 as the statement piece above a sofa or headboard.
Framing. The gallery ground is part of the print, so frame it without a mat — black suits the deep tones of this period; oak lightens it.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
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About this design
The Madten promise
An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.
The full-bleed edition
The painting printed edge-to-edge at its own proportions, filling the whole sheet — and available on gallery-wrapped canvas.
