Oil on paper
Private Collection, Houston, Texas
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Bierstadt's second visit to Yosemite was
in February and March of 1872, when the valley was still under snow. He went there 'with characteristic enterprise .
to make sketches of the winter aspects of its unequalled scenery, when the peaks and cliffs are covered deep with snow,
and the falls tumble amid icicles and ice-sheeted rocks'. Bierstadt's industry is evident from the fact that most artists
found the weather too cold to draw, let along make sketches in oil, at such a season. |
Room 5: Painting from Nature
Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902)