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Fir Trees and Storm Clouds

c. 1870

Albert Bierstadt

(American, born Prussia [now Germany], 1830–1902)
America
oil on paper mounted on canvas
Unframed: 35 x 47 cm (13 3/4 x 18 1/2 in.)
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1982.37
Location: Not on view
  • English Collection; (Davis & Langdale, New York,d 1982).
  • Lee, Sherman E. “Year in Review for 1982.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 70, no. 1 (January 1983): 3–55. Reproduced: p. 16; Mentioned: p. 51, no. 23 www.jstor.org
  • London, Tate Britain, American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States 1820-1880 (21 February-19 May 2002); traveled to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (17 June-25 August 2002); to Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of Arts (22 September-17 November 2002); cat. no. 62, illus. p. 182.
    The American Sublime. Tate Britain, London (organizer) (February 20-May 19, 2002); Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Museum of American Art, Philadelphia, PA (June 17-August 25, 2002); Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN (September 22-November 17, 2002).
    Brooklyn, NY, The Brooklyn Museum, Feb. 8-May 6, 1991: "Albert Bierstadt: Art and Enterprise," cat. #31, illus. p. 168. Also to: San Francisco, CA, M. H. de Young Museum, June 8-Sept. 2, 1991; Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, Nov. 3, 1991-Feb. 17, 1992
    The Year in Review for 1982. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 6, 1983).
    New York, Davis & Langdale Company, Inc, Oil Sketches by Albert Bierstadt, 1830-1902 (13 April-8 May 1982), cat. no. 6, illus.
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