Mount Starr King, Yosemite
1866
Albert Bierstadt
Albert Bierstadt (American, 1830–1902)
American Painting and Sculpture
Mount Starr King, Yosemite, 1866. Albert Bierstadt (American, 1830–1902). Oil on canvas on panel-back stretcher; framed: 135.3 x 181 x 15.6 cm (53 1/4 x 71 1/4 x 6 1/8 in.); unframed: 97 x 142.3 cm (38 3/16 x 56 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 1922.684 Highly successful, Bierstadt built a mansion and named it Malkasten, a German word meaning “paintbox.”
- Maker/Artist
- Bierstadt, Albert
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on canvas on panel-back stretcher
- Medium
- oil, canvas, panel-back, stretcher
- Dimensions
- Framed: 135.3 x 181 x 15.6 cm (53 1/4 x 71 1/4 x 6 1/8 in.); Unframed: 97 x 142.3 cm (38 3/16 x 56 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: signed lower right: ABierstadt. / 66 [AB in monogram]
- Departments
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1922.684
- Credit Line
- Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection
- Exhibitions
- The Artist in the American West, 1800-1900, Inaugural Exhibition, The World of the Romantic Artist: A Survey of American Culture from 1800-1875, The Hudson River School and the Early American Landscape Tradition, American Artists Discover America, A Retrospective Exhibition: Albert Bierstadt 1830-1902, The Mythology of the American West, Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Catalogue of The Inaugural Exhibition (6 June-20 September 1916), cat. no. 2 as Starr King Mountain, California.<br>Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, The World of the Romantic Artist: A Survey of American Culture from 1800-1875 (28 December 1944-28 January 1945), cat. no. 45, p. 29 as Starr King Mountain, California. <br>Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Hudson River School and the Early American Landscape Tradition (15 February-25 March 1945); traveled to New York, Whitney Museum of American Art (17 April-18 May 1945); cat. no. 13 as Starr King Mountain, California, illus. p. 108. <br>Oberlin, Ohio, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, American Artists Discover America (2-25 February 1946), cat. no. 4, illus. p. 12 as Starr King Mountain, California, catalogue appears in Bulletin of the Allen Memorial Art Museum (February 1946), vol. 3, no. 1. <br>Santa Fe, Fine Arts Museum of New Mexico, The Artist in the American West, 1800-1900 cat. no. 2, illus. as Starr King Mountain, California.<br>Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, A Retrospective Exhibition: Albert Bierstadt 1830-1902 (5 August-13 September 1964), cat. no. 27, illus. as Starr King Mountain, California. <br>Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen (9/.28/2007 - 1/7/2008) and Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes (2/18/2008 - 5/18/2008): "The Mythology of the American West"
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 206 American Landscape
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