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The Brother's Burial, (painting). Artist:  Bierstadt, Albert, 1830-1902, painter. Title:  The Brother's Burial, (painting). Other Titles:  Brothers' Burial, (painting). Dates:  1861. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Oil on board. Dimensions:  32 1/4 x 18 in. (81.9 x 45.7 cm). Inscription:  (Lower left:) A Bierstadt 1861 signed Description:  A night scene of figures in a rowboat conducting a burial at sea. A torch in the boat illuminates the somber faces of the figures in the foreground. In the background, a beam of moonlight breaks through the clouds and reflects off the water. Subject:  Waterscape -- Sea Waterscape -- Celestial -- Moon Figure group Waterscape -- Time -- Night State of Being -- Emotion -- Sorrow Architecture -- Boat -- Rowboat Ceremony -- Funeral Object Type:  Painting Owner:  George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, 220 State Street, Springfield, Massachusetts 01103 References:  "Nineteenth Century American Paintings," George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, 1970. George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, 1989. 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. 97, CL-130. Flower, Dean, and Francis Murphy, "A Catalogue of American Painting, Water Colors and Drawings (to 1923) in the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum," Springfield, MA: George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, 1976, pg. 18. Hendricks, Gordon "A Bierstadt," Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1972, no. 30. 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, fig. 74. Flower, Dean, and Francis Murphy, "A Catalogue of American Painting, Water Colors and Drawings (to 1923) in the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum," Springfield, MA: George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, 1976, pg. 86. 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 22940001   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 22940001 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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