Albert Biersta

For more than a century, Albert Bierstadt’s sweeping canvases of snow-capped mountain ranges, radiant sunsets, colorful Indian tribes, and buffalo roaming the plains have captured the public imagination with a Romantic vision of a vast and beautiful continent waiting to be seen, explored, and conquered. Today that splendid wilderness is all but vanished, and with its passing Bierstadt’s portrayals of the beauty and drama of the Western landscape take on fresh meaning for …

…what are known to be some of the best landscape paintings ever but he also beautifully recorded our countries now vanished history. His love for art and nature has given our future generations the opportunity to look back in time and see what our Nation looked like not long after our birth. His extraordinary work will be long remembered and he will forever be looked upon as the father of painting of the American West.