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Sunrise in the Hetch Hetchy Valley, California, (painting). Artist:  Bierstadt, Albert, 1830-1902, painter. Title:  Sunrise in the Hetch Hetchy Valley, California, (painting). Dates:  1873-1875. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  29 1/4 x 43 3/4 in. Inscription:  (Lower right:) ABierstadt signed Description:  Landscape of the Hetch Hetchy Valley, located about fifteen miles north of Yosemite, is a quiet scene with stand of trees shading the right foreground and a sunlit middle ground with a single bull elk standing in the golden light of an autumn morning. (The Hetch Hetchy Valley disappeared in 1923 when the Tuolumne River was dammed to make a reservoir for San Francisco.) Subject:  Landscape -- Valley -- Hetch Hetchy Valley Landscape -- California Landscape -- Time -- Sunrise Landscape -- Time -- Morning Landscape -- Season -- Autumn Animal -- Deer Object Type:  Painting Owner:  George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, 220 State Street, Springfield, Massachusetts 01103 Accession Number: 1.23.4 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Woodworth, Albert C., Col., Hale, Eleanor Woodworth, Chicopee, Massachusetts Purchased by Smith, George Walter Vincent, 1914. References:  Coll./Exh.checklist "19th C American Paintings," 1970. George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, 1989. "Selections from the American Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts and the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum," Springfield, MA: Springfield Library and Museums Association, 1999, pg. 18-20. 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, "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-131. Illustration:  Image on file. "Selections from the American Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts and the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum," Springfield, MA: Springfield Library and Museums Association, 1999, pg. 18. 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. 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-131. 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 22940002   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 22940002 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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