Object Details
- Artist
- Albert Bierstadt, born Solingen, Germany 1830-died New York City 1902
- Luce Center Label
- In 1872, Albert Bierstadt traveled deep into Kings River canyon in the South Sierra Nevada with the geologist Clarence King. He created many paintings on this trip, believing that people back East would be fascinated by images of the distant western states. In Sunrise in the Sierras the sunlight bouncing off the tips of the mountains emphasizes the vivid color of the rock against the dark, unfinished foreground. (Anderson and Ferber, Albert Bierstadt: Art and Enterprise, 1990)
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Orrin Wickersham June
- ca. 1872
- Object number
- 1967.136.8
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- oil on paper mounted on paperboard
- Dimensions
- 13 1/2 x 18 7/8 in. (34.3 x 47.9 cm.)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- On View
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2nd Floor, East Wing
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Landscape\California
- Landscape\time\sunrise
- Landscape\mountain\Sierra Nevada Mountains
- Record ID
- saam_1967.136.8
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7bde4c1b1-1765-48a9-b7e8-369f1fdc2d6a
