Museum of Fine Arts 465 Huntington Avenue Boston Massachusetts 02115 Accession Number: 47.1257
Date:
Ca. 1870-1880
Notes:
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, "M and M Karolik Collection of American paintings, 1815 to 1865," Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1949.
"American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston," Boston (Museum of Fine Arts), distributed by New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, Conn., 1969.
Troyen, Carol, et al., "American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue," Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, 19197, pg. 19.
Hendricks, Gordon, "Albert Bierstadt: painter of the American West," NY: H. N. Abrams, published in association with the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1974, no. 138, CL-110.
Hendricks, Gordon "A Bierstadt," Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1972, no. 91.
Image on file.
American Art Review (Jan-Feb.), 1975.
Troyen, Carol, et al., "American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue," Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, 1997, pg. 19.
Hendricks, Gordon, "Albert Bierstadt: painter of the American West," NY: H. N. Abrams, published in association with the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1974, pg. 186.
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Summary:
View looking across the flat terrain in the valley between two mountains with dramatic dark clouds forming a circular pattern in the sky.