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Seal Rocks, Farallones, (painting). Artist:  Bierstadt, Albert, 1830-1902, painter. Title:  Seal Rocks, Farallones, (painting). Other Titles:  Farallon Islands, (painting). Dates:  1872. Medium:  Oil on paper mounted on paperboard. Dimensions:  13 1/2 x 19 in. (34.3 x 48.3 cm). Inscription:  (Lower left:) ABierstadt (On back visible before mounting:) Seal Farralone(sic) Is Pacific 1872 signed Description:  View looking across a sandy beach covered with seals pulling themselves out of the water and climbing up on a rocky part of the shore to the upper right. Subject:  Animal -- Seal Landscape -- Coast Landscape -- California Waterscape -- Sea -- Pacific Ocean Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115 Accession Number: 47,1254 Provenance:  Gift of Karolik, Martha C., References:  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, 1997, pg. 18. 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-91. "A Retrospective Exhibition: Albert Bierstadt 1830-1902," Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1964, no. 60. Illustration:  Karolik Catalog, 1949, No.46. Troyen, Carol, et al., "American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue," Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, 1997. 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-91. 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 20490131   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 20490131 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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