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| Keywords: 1875, Bierstadt, Albert, Mount Adams, Washington.jpg Artwork Creator Albert Bierstadt Catalogue Entry Like Frederic Church Albert Bierstadt enjoyed great success in the years surrounding the Civil War producing finely detailed vistas of nature �s splendor in majestic canvases that were similarly invested with significance beyond their surface appearance The first technically advanced artist to portray the American West Bierstadt offered to a rapidly transforming nation pictures whose spectacular size and fresh dramatic subject matter supplied a visual correlative to notions of American exceptionalism while also contributing to the developing concept of Manifest Destiny Trained in the highly finished manner of the Düsseldorf Academy Bierstadt �s precise style imbued his works with a reassuring sense of veracity despite their sublime subjects and occasional liberties with geographic reality In Mount Adams Washington he characteristically combined an impressively scaled natural background with a foreground view of American Indian life which serves to heighten the picture �s putative realism even as it enhances its exotic appeal The implied movement of the clouds and the sunlit figures on horseback similarly off to the right seems to open up the depicted space for the viewer to inhabit providing an apt pictorial metaphor for the actual occupation and exploitation of the West by the eastern interests that constituted the artist �s clientele Gallery Label Albert Bierstadt enjoyed great success in the years surrounding the Civil War producing finely detailed vistas of nature �s splendor in majestic canvases that were invested with a significance beyond their surface appearance The first technically advanced artist to portray the American West Bierstadt offered to a rapidly transforming nation pictures whose spectacular size and fresh dramatic subject matter supplied a visual correlative to notions of American exceptionalism while contributing as well to the developing concept of Manifest Destiny Trained in the highly finished manner of the Düsseldorf Academy Bierstadt �s precise style imbued his works with a reassuring sense of veracity that their sublime subjects and occasional liberties with geographic reality would seem to belie In Mt Adams Washington the artist characteristically combined an impressively scaled natural background with a foreground view of American Indian life which serves to heighten the picture �s putative realism even as it enhances its exotic appeal 1875 Oil on canvas Size cm 138 213 <br> frame Size cm 180 255 7 15 5 Institution Princeton University Art Museum American Art object history exhibition history Encounters Conflict Dialogue Discovery Princeton University Art Museum 14 Jul 2012 � 23 Sep 2012 credit line Gift of Mrs Jacob N Beam accession number y1940-430 place of creation Princeton University Art Museum PD-old-100 1902 cite book Steward James Christen Princeton University Art Museum Handbook of the Collections Revised and Expanded Edition 2013 Princeton University Art Museum Princeton NJ 978-0943012414 2nd 245 cite web Mount Adams Washington y1940-430 http //artmuseum princeton edu/collections/objects/21699 Princeton University Art Museum Uploaded with UploadWizard American art in the Princeton University Art Museum American paintings in the Princeton University Art Museum Paintings in the Princeton University Art Museum Landscape paintings of the United States by Albert Bierstadt Modern art in the Princeton University Art Museum 1870s landscape paintings 1875 paintings in the United States Mount Adams Washington in art Mount Adams Washington in 1875 Scanned with Fujifilm Lanovia C-550 | ||||
