San Antonio Museum of Art 200 West Jones Avenue San Antonio Texas 78215 Accession Number: 85.94
Date:
1870
Notes:
"A National Image: The American Painting and Sculpture Collection in the San Antonio Museum of Art," San Antonio, TX: San Antonio Museum of Art, 2003, pg. 81.
Anderson, Nancy K., and Linda S. Ferber, "Albert Bierstadt: Art & Enterprise," New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with The Brooklyn Museum, 1990, pg. 213.
Summary:
Mountain landscape depicting bright streaks of sunlight breaking through dark clouds and highlighting the jagged Sierra Nevada Mountains below. In the foreground, a ray of sunlight falls across a quiet spot along the shore of a wide river, and another ray highlights the river in the background, where it winds its way between densely forested river banks.
Topic:
Landscape--Mountain--Sierra Nevada Mountains Search this
