Collection Highlights
Portrait of two girls
Date:
Object Number:
PR.012.1.326.Box12
Medium:
Ambrotype
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Autumn Woods
Object Number:
1910.11
Date:
1886
Medium:
Oil on linen
Dimensions:
Overall (linen): 54 x 84 in. (137.2 x 213.4 cm)
Frame: 65 x 94 7/8 x 3 3/4 in. ( 165.1 x 241 x 9.5 cm )
Marks:
Signed, lower right: 'A. BIERSTADT' On paper label pasted on stretcher: 'LONDON. AUTUMN WOODS. HEAD OF SUSQUEHANNA RIVER, N.Y. STATE. A. BIERSTADT / 1271 BROADWAY, NEW YORK.'
Description:
Landscape which depicts two rivers, the Chenango and the Unadilla, and a wooded area.
Gallery Label:
The two rivers shown in this painting were near the home of Albert Bierstadt's wife (the donor) in Waterville, NY.
Bibliography:
Catalogue of the Gallery of Art of the New York Historical Society, New York: Printed for the Society, 1915, p. 49.
Hendricks, Gordon, Albert Bierstadt: painter of the American West, New York: H.N. Abrams, 1974, n.p.
Baigell, Matthew, Albert Bierstadt, New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1981, pp. 62-3.
Koke, Richard J., American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society, Vol. II, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1982, pp. 43-5.
Hudson River Museum, ed., Paintbox Leaves: Autumnal Inspiration from Cole to Wyeth, (Yonkers: Hudson River Museum, 2010), 28-9
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Albert Bierstadt
Provenance:
Mrs. Albert Bierstadt, direct from the artist.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
