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Title: Primal Visions: Albert Bierstadt "Discovers" America
Description: Montclair, NJ, Montclair Art Museum, 2001. Softbound. Color illustrated wraps. 90 pp. profusely illustrated in color and bw. Primal Visions highlights two of Bierstadt's most important paintings: Autumn in the Sierras (1873) and The Landing of Columbus (1892). These monumental six-by-twelve foot canvases exemplify the explorer's initial impressions of the New World. In this regard, Bierstadt's encounter with the pristine wilderness of the Sierra Nevada, and his romantic history painting of Columbus's discovery of America, may be termed primal visions. There are 33 works by Bierstadt, along with paintings, photographs and prints by other artists, including Sanford Gifford, Thomas Cole, Emmanuel Leutze, Eadweard Muybridge, Carlton E. Watkins and Kay WalkingStick, a present-day painter with Cherokee roots.This show is by no means the definitive Bierstadt exhibition. But the issues it raises give it added dimension. As New .

Keywords: American Artists ; Bierstadt, Albert ; ;

Price: US$ 20.00 Seller: Kevin Mullen, Bookseller
- Book number: 103581

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