Module 5 Artwork Analyisis
Albert Bierstadt, Among the Sierra Nevada, California, 1868, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Helen Huntington Hull, granddaughter of William Brown Dinsmore, who acquired the painting in 1873 for "The Locusts," the family estate in Dutchess County, New York, 1977.107.1 This beautiful painting was done by Albert Bierstadt in the 1860s. The subject of this painting was the Sierra Nevada in California. Most of his paintings were of the spectacular views of the frontiers [1]. It uses an array of earth tones, blues, grays, and whites to create a realistic landscape portrait. The vast mountains have a haze of gray and blue to them to really showcase the distance in perspective to the deer in the foreground. There is a still lake that is framed by the distant rocky cliffs, the mountains that reach the clouds, and the wild trees. Gorgeous waterfalls flow into the small lake and barely displace the water, causing almost no movement from the current. This al