Mirror Lake, Yosemite Valley

Mirror Lake, Yosemite Valley
Mirror Lake, Yosemite Valley
(American, 1830-1902)

Mirror Lake, Yosemite Valley

Date1864
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensionsoverall: 21 3/4 x 30 1/8 in. (55.2 x 76.5 cm) frame: 30 1/4 x 38 5/8 x 4 in. (76.8 x 98.1 x 10.2 cm)
ClassificationPAINTINGS
Credit LineSBMA, Gift of Mrs. Sterling Morton for the Preston Morton Collection
Object number1960.51
Subject(s)
  • landscape
  • California
  • river
  • mountain
  • boat
Collection
  • 19th century American
  • American
Sub-Collection(s)
  • German
  • American
On View
On view
Label TextAlbert Bierstadt was inspired by Carleton Watkins’ large-scale photographs of Yosemite. Such images responded to a collective appetite for the sublime in nature as a divine space untouched by the Civil War. Bierstadt created majestic views of largely inaccessible (Yosemite would not be established as a National Park until 1890) and awe-inspiring High Sierra lakes and mountains in easel-sized paintings such as this, as well as in canvases on a much grander scale in his New York City studio.
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