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    Bernese Alps, (painting).
    Artist: 
    Bierstadt, Albert, 1830-1902, painter.
    Title: 
    Bernese Alps, (painting).
    Other Titles: 
    Bernese Alps, as Seen Near Kusnach (?), (painting).
    Dates: 
    1859.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image
    Medium: 
    Oil on canvas.
    Dimensions: 
    42 x 72 in.
    Inscription: 
    (Lower left:) ABierstadt / 1859 signed
    Description: 
    Landscape with a lake and mountains in the background and cows grazing in the foreground.
    Subject: 
    Landscape -- Switzerland
    Landscape -- Mountain -- Alps
    Landscape -- Lake
    Animal -- Cattle
    Object Type: 
    Painting
    Owner: 
    Museum of Western Art, 1727 Tremont Place, Denver, Colorado 80202
    Provenance: 
    Formerly located New Bedford, Massachusetts
    Formerly in the collection of Hammer Galleries, 51 East 57th Street, New York, New York 10022
    Jim Fowler's Period Gallery West, 7133 Stetson Drive, Scottsdale, Arizona 85251
    Exhibitions: 
    National Academy of Design Thirty Fourth Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, 1859, (no. 534).
    References: 
    American Art Review (July-August 1974).
    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. 36.
    Restricted Owner, 1990.
    Carr, Gerald L., "Bierstadt's West," New York: Gerald Peters Gallery, 1997, pl. no. 1.
    Baigell, Matthew, "Albert Bierstadt," New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1981, pl. 5.
    Hendricks, Gordon "Albert Bierstadt 1830-1902," New York: M. Knoedler & Co., 1972, no. 4.
    "Frontier Spirit: Catalog of the Collection of the Museum of Western Art," Denver, Co: Museum of Western Art, 1983, no. 5.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    American Art Review (July-August 1974).
    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. 19.
    Carr, Gerald L., "Bierstadt's West," New York: Gerald Peters Gallery, 1997, pl. no. 1.
    Baigell, Matthew, "Albert Bierstadt," New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1981, pl. 5.
    Hendricks, Gordon "Albert Bierstadt 1830-1902," New York: M. Knoedler & Co., 1972, no. 4.
    "Frontier Spirit: Catalog of the Collection of the Museum of Western Art," Denver, Co: Museum of Western Art, 1983, no. 5.
    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 82190037
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