Gilbert Munger's quest for distinction.
From: The Magazine Antiques
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Date: 7/1/2003
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Author: Schroeder, Michael D.; Sweeney, J. Gray
In mid-November 1872, during intensely cold snowstorms at the summit of the Sierra Nevada near Donner Pass, an aspiring landscape painter from Connecticut sketched alongside one of the nation's most illustrious artists. "I am now sketching this place with [Albert] Bierstadt [1830-1902]," wrote Gilbert Munger. "We work from sunrise to sunset, muffled up to our eyebrows in furs....We are sketching in the snow, sketching snow-storms and snow effects....I am now familiar with the scenery ...
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