Albert Bierstadt

(American, 1830–1902)

Room Paintings holds 16 paintings by Albert Bierstadt, from The Met, the National Gallery of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. They date from 1858 to 1889. We file most of them under Hudson River School, and some under Romanticism. The most common subjects are landscapes, mountains and rivers and lakes. 15 of them suit a room in our lists, most often the living room and bedroom.

Styles

Hudson River School 16
Romanticism 4

Rooms

Museums

The 16 paintings

The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak, Albert Bierstadt, 1863, oil on canvas

Albert Bierstadt The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak, 1863 The Met

Painting of a small stream in the middle of the woods. In the center of the painting, there is a small waterfall over a large boulder.

Albert Bierstadt Mountain Brook, 1863 Art Institute of Chicago

Mount Vesuvius at Midnight, Albert Bierstadt, 1868, oil on canvas

Albert Bierstadt Mount Vesuvius at Midnight, 1868 Cleveland Museum of Art

Canadian Rockies (Lake Louise), Albert Bierstadt, ca. 1889, oil on paper mounted to board

Albert Bierstadt Canadian Rockies (Lake Louise), ca. 1889 The Met

Merced River, Yosemite Valley, Albert Bierstadt, 1866, oil on canvas

Albert Bierstadt Merced River, Yosemite Valley, 1866 The Met

Mountain Scene, Albert Bierstadt, 1880–90, oil on paper

Albert Bierstadt Mountain Scene, 1880–90 The Met

A band of indigenous Americans ride horses toward and through a herd of buffalo, which spreads along a river that winds through plains to mountains in the deep distance in this horizontal landscape painting.

Albert Bierstadt The Last of the Buffalo, 1888-1889 National Gallery of Art

The top three-quarters of this horizontal landscape painting is filled with roiling, deeply shadowed clouds that tower over a line of buffalo crossing a grassy meadow below.

Albert Bierstadt Buffalo Trail: The Impending Storm, 1869 National Gallery of Art

We look across the gleaming, forest-green surface of a lake at the foot of tall, jagged mountains in this horizontal landscape painting.

Albert Bierstadt Mount Corcoran, c. 1876-1877 National Gallery of Art

From a little above a dirt road, we look past a grove of trees to a broad plain and a lake at the foot of towering, hazy mountains in this horizontal landscape painting.

Albert Bierstadt Lake Lucerne, 1858 National Gallery of Art

Sea Cove, Albert Bierstadt, ca. 1880–90, oil on wood

Albert Bierstadt Sea Cove, ca. 1880–90 The Met

Nevada Falls, Yosemite, Albert Bierstadt, 1872 or 1873, oil on canvas

Albert Bierstadt Nevada Falls, Yosemite, 1872 or 1873 The Met

Sunrise on the Matterhorn, Albert Bierstadt, after 1875, oil on canvas

Albert Bierstadt Sunrise on the Matterhorn, after 1875 The Met

Fir Trees and Storm Clouds, Albert Bierstadt, c. 1870, oil on paper mounted on canvas

Albert Bierstadt Fir Trees and Storm Clouds, c. 1870 Cleveland Museum of Art

Study of a Tree, Albert Bierstadt, ca. 1864, oil on paper mounted on board

Albert Bierstadt Study of a Tree, ca. 1864 The Met

Mount Starr King, Yosemite, Albert Bierstadt, 1866, oil on canvas on panel-back stretcher

Albert Bierstadt Mount Starr King, Yosemite, 1866 Cleveland Museum of Art