Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak
Albert Bierstadt, 1863
with American artists Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze and Worthington Whittredge in Dusseldorf (1853-57)
1857 – moves to New Bedford, MA
1858 – first exhibition -- National Academy of Design (NAD, New York). Exhibits Lake Lucerne (National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC)
1859 – travels west with Frederick W. Lander’s Honey Road Survey Party making sketches and taking stereoscopic photographs; begins exhibiting at Boston Athenaeum
1860 – exhibits Rocky Mountains, Laramie Peak (untraced) at NAD and becomes member
1861 – begins exhibiting at Brooklyn Art Association
1862 – joins Century Association
1863 – travels to San Francisco, Yosemite Valley, and Oregon with writer Fitz Hugh Ludlow
1864 – stops exhibiting at Boston Athenaeum
1865 – sells The Rocky Mountains to English financier James McHenry for $25,000
1875 – gets commission for US Capitol: Discovery of the Hudson (in situ)
1879 – stops exhibiting with Brooklyn Art Association
Germany, Switzerland and Italy (1853-57); Europe (1867-71); travels frequently throughout United States, Canada, and Europe; Alaska (1889)
US government
Important ArtworksDomes of the Yosemite, 1867 (Athenaeum, St Johnsbury, VT)
Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, 1868 (New Museum of American Art, Washington, DC)
Anderson, Nancy K. Albert Bierstadt: Art and Enterprise. Exhibition catalogue. New York: The Brooklyn Museum, 1990
Miller, Angela. The Empire of the Eye. Landscape Representation and American Cultural Politics 1825-1875. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1993