Bierstadt paintings in the Haggin Museum.(Haggin Museum, Stockton, California) From: The Magazine Antiques | Date: November 1, 1999| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1999 Brant Publications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Albert Bierstadt was a great American painter who received substantial critical acclaim when he was a young man in his thirties. By 1864, when his important painting The Rocky Mountains, Landers Peak went on exhibition in New York City, Bierstadt had risen to the top of his field, challenging Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900) for leadership in American landscape painting.(1) Starting in the late 1860s, Bierstadt's reputation went into decline. His heroic transcriptions of the Rocky Mountains and Yosemite Valley, executed with precision and clarity, went out of fashion, supplanted ...