Detroit Institute of Arts 5200 Woodward Avenue Detroit Michigan 48202 Accession Number: 61.28
Date:
Ca. 1859
Notes:
"American paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts; volume 2: Works by artists born 1816-1847," New York : Hudson Hills Press, 1997, no. 2.
"Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts; a checklist of the paintings acquired before June 1965," Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1965.
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. CL-135.
Anderson, Nancy K., and Linda S. Ferber, "Albert Bierstadt: Art & Enterprise," New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with The Brooklyn Museum, 1990, pg. 153.
"A Retrospective Exhibition: Albert Bierstadt 1830-1902," Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1964, no. 51.
Hendricks, Gordon "A Bierstadt," Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1972, no. 17.
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, 82.
Image on file.
"American paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts; volume 2: Works by artists born 1816-1847," New York : Hudson Hills Press, 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, fig. 63.
Anderson, Nancy K., and Linda S. Ferber, "Albert Bierstadt: Art & Enterprise," New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with The Brooklyn Museum, 1990, no. 16.
"A Retrospective Exhibition: Albert Bierstadt 1830-1902," Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1964, no. 51.
(Lower right:) ABierstadt signed
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Summary:
Two figures ride in a river in the shawdowed foreground. An Indian village is above them in full sunlight. The Indian figures stand at the edge and look down toward the figures. Dogs are on a path toward the river.
