
Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
Mountain Brook
Albert Bierstadt · 1863
Provenance
Ownership history
- Oliver Kelly, Ohio, before 1900; by descent in the family until 1989; Hirschl and Adler Galleries, New York; Private collection, Los Angeles; Michael N. Altman and Company, New York, by 1997; the Art Institute of Chicago,1997.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, National Academy of Design, <em>Thirty–Eighth Annual Exhibition</em>, Apr. 14–June 24, 1863, cat. 6.
- Brooklyn Museum, <em>Albert Bierstadt, Art and Enterprise</em>, Feb. 8–May 6, 1991, cat. 36; San Francisco, Fine Arts Museum, June 6–Sept. 2, 1991, Washington, DC, National Gallery of Arts, Nov. 3, 1991–Feb. 17, 1992.
- Washington DC, National Gallery of Art, <em>East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth Century American Landscape Photography</em>, Mar. 12–July 16, 2017; New Orleans Museum of Art, Oct. 5, 2017–Jan. 7, 2018, cat. 82 (Washington DC only).
Literature
Published references
- Barry Gray (R.B.Coffin), <em>New York Leader</em>, January 17, 1863.
- Fitz Hugh Ludlow, <em>New York Evening Post</em>, May 22, 1863.
- <em>New York Times</em>, April 24, 1963, 14.
- Gordon Hendricks, “The First Three Western Journeys of Albert Bierstadt,” <em>Art Bulletin</em>, 46 (September, 1964), 363, no. 244.
- Gordon Hendricks, <em>Albert Bierstadt: Painter of the American West</em> (Harry N. Abrams, 1974), 117.
- Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998).
- Steven Conn and Andrew Walker, “The History in the Art: Painting the Civil War,” <em>Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies</em> 27, 1 (2001), 60–81, fig. 12.
- Clare Kunny and Andrew Walker, “Introduction,” <em>Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies</em> 27, 1 (2001), 5–6.
- Angela Miller, “Albert Bierstadt, Landscape Aesthetics, and the Meanings of the West in the Civil War Era,” <em>Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies</em> 27, 1 (2001), 40–59, fig. 1.
- Margaret Rose Vendryes, “Race Identity/ Identifying Race: Robert S. Duncanson and Nineteenth–Century American Painting," <em>Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies</em> 27, 1 (2001), 98–99.
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