Among the Sierra Nevada, California
1868 · Oil on canvas · Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
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This print
About this work
- Artist
- Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902)
- Year
- 1868
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 183 × 305 cm
- Collection
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
- Movement
- Hudson River School
Light breaks through parting clouds onto granite peaks and a waterfall and pours across a still lake where a herd of elk stands at the water's edge and waterfowl rise; a single trout can be found in the shallows at the left by anyone who looks closely. Bierstadt painted the canvas, more than three metres wide, in Rome in the winter of 1867 to 1868, four years after his 1863 journey to California, and it is a composite ideal rather than a view of any one place. He showed it in London the following summer and then at the Royal Academy in Berlin, and its tour of Europe is credited with stirring interest in emigration to the American West. The painting is a centrepiece of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's nineteenth-century landscape galleries in Washington.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Light breaking through clouds onto peaks, a waterfall and elk at a still lake, for a living room, dining room or hallway at 24×36 in black. A sage, cream or pale blue wall; it reads across a room and suits a mountain home.
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Hudson River School painting
- Era
- 19th century (1868)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- calm
- Rooms
- living room, dining room, dorm room, hallway or entryway
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
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A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
