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ALBERT BIERSTADT (NY/CA/MA/GERMANY, 1830-1902)

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Northwest Native Americans Fishing under a Full Moon, oil on paper, laid to canvas, unsigned, fragment from Kennedy Galleries of NYC label verso, depicting figures on the foreground bank filling a large basket with salmon, an empty canoe beached, a second canoe with three men obscured by mist, housed in a vintage gilt gesso cove matched corner frame, OS: 15 1/2" x 7 1/2", SS: 5 1/4" x 7 1/4". Lightly raised lines in surface of image, minor loss to frame corners.Bierstadt was born in Solingen, Prussia but was brought to New York City as an infant. He was a leader of the second generation of 'Luminist' painters of the Hudson River School. His travels to and painting of the expanses of the American West provided a bridge to the Rocky Mountain School. His 1867 audience with Queen Victoria opened the European market to Western paintings. In 1876 he and his wife Rosalie moved to Nassau, the Bahamas because of her tuberculosis, he continued to travel to the West and Canada for material. His Irvington, NY studio burned in 1882. Provenance: Sold at Sotheby's in 1991. From a Private Collection.

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Northwest Native Americans Fishing under a Full Moon, oil on paper, laid to canvas, unsigned, fragment from Kennedy Galleries of NYC label verso, depicting figures on the foreground bank filling a large basket with salmon, an empty canoe beached, a second canoe with three men obscured by mist, housed in a vintage gilt gesso cove matched corner frame, OS: 15 1/2" x 7 1/2", SS: 5 1/4" x 7 1/4". Lightly raised lines in surface of image, minor loss to frame corners.Bierstadt was born in Solingen, Prussia but was brought to New York City as an infant. He was a leader of the second generation of 'Luminist' painters of the Hudson River School. His travels to and painting of the expanses of the American West provided a bridge to the Rocky Mountain School. His 1867 audience with Queen Victoria opened the European market to Western paintings. In 1876 he and his wife Rosalie moved to Nassau, the Bahamas because of her tuberculosis, he continued to travel to the West and Canada for material. His Irvington, NY studio burned in 1882. Provenance: Sold at Sotheby's in 1991. From a Private Collection.

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