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Mirror Lake, Yosemite Valley
Albert BIERSTADT
(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
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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.