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Mountain Scene by Bierstadt

Mountain Scene by Bierstadt
Albert Bierstadt was a German-born American artist who specialized in grandiose paintings of spectacular mountain scenery in the western United States. The 1868 painting shown here, Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Smithsonian American Art Museum/Art Resource, NY
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American Art; Painting; Bierstadt, Albert
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