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Fir Trees and Storm Clouds

c. 1870

Albert Bierstadt

(American, born Prussia [now Germany], 1830–1902)
Culture
America
Medium
oil on paper mounted on canvas
Measurements
Unframed: 35 x 47 cm (13 3/4 x 18 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1982.37
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There are more than 40 species of fir trees.
An oil painting depicts a dramatic landscape where the upper two-thirds is dominated by towering gray and white clouds illuminated from the upper right. In the lower third, a yellowish-brown grassy slope rises toward a rocky ridge punctuated by sparse, dark green fir trees. To the left, a blue-gray mountain peak sits behind the ridge against a dark blue sky. The composition emphasizes the atmospheric scale of the heavy, luminous clouds.

Fir Trees and Storm Clouds

c. 1870

Albert Bierstadt

(American, born Prussia [now Germany], 1830–1902)
America

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