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Sacramento Valley in Spring, (painting). Artist:  Bierstadt, Albert, 1830-1902, painter. Title:  Sacramento Valley in Spring, (painting). Other Titles:  California Spring, (painting). Digital Reference:  Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  55 x 85 in. (139.7 x 215.9 cm). Inscription:  (Lower right:) ABierstadt signed Description:  View looking across a grassy hillside dotted with cattle grazing amid a field of wildflowers, as the sun overhead breaks out from behind grey clouds, suddenly flooding the pasture with light. In the distance a river is visible winding its way toward the horizon. Subject:  Landscape -- Season -- Spring Landscape -- California -- Sacramento Landscape -- Plant -- Wildflower Animal -- Cattle Landscape -- River Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California 94118 Accession Number: 1941.6 Provenance:  Gift of Blanding, Gordon, Remarks:  This painting is possibly the one given by the artist to the Montreal Art Association (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts), and which was later deaccessioned by the museum. References:  San Francisco Bay Area Biap Survey, 1975. 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. 193. Burgard, Timothy Anglin, ed., "Masterworks of American Painting at the de Young," San Francisco, CA: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2005, pg. 127. "A Retrospective Exhibition: Albert Bierstadt 1830-1902," Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1964, no. 39. Hendricks, Gordon "A Bierstadt," Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1972, no. 70. Illustration:  Image on file. 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. 255 & CL-20. Burgard, Timothy Anglin, ed., "Masterworks of American Painting at the de Young," San Francisco, CA: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2005, pg. 127. "A Retrospective Exhibition: Albert Bierstadt 1830-1902," Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1964, no. 39. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAP 71068689   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 71068689 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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