I recently returned from my annual research trip to Anaheim, where I managed to escape the theme parks long enough to visit Los Angeles’ J. Paul Getty Museum. The Getty Center is famous as one of ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This small collection measures 0.2 linear feet and comprises 13 letters written by renowned Hudson River School landscape painter Albert Bierstadt ...

Art history, like all history, fills its pages with figures who died tragically young. Raphael, Caravaggio, Van Gogh, T.C. Cannon. One of those names will be less familiar to most than the others. The ...

FRANCONIA, N.H. — Did it matter, really, that Albert Bierstadt’s rapturous 19th-century visions of the American west were far, far too good to be true? It depends how much truth mattered back then, in ...

Albert Bierstadt was a German-American painter best known for his grandiose landscapes of the 19th-century American West. Born on January 7, 1830 in Solingen, Prussia, Bierstadt's family immigrated to ...

You try to take in the expanse of the landscape and the sweep of the sky, the jagged rock faces and pounding cataracts, the otherworldly light and unearthly shadows. But they confound rational ...