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Original works by Albert Bierstadt available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio
The Oregon Trail, 1869
Albert Bierstadt at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
10 paintings online
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Albert Bierstadt at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
14 works by Albert Bierstadt online
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Watercolor collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma
Emigrants Crossing the Plains, 1867
Albert Bierstadt at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Lake Lucerne, 1858
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite, ca.1871-73
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Yosemite Valley, Glacier Point Trail
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Sketchbook from the artist and a couple of oil paintings
Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, Missouri
High Sierra, ca.1880
Amon Carter Museum, Texas
Sunrise, Yosemite Valley
Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Los Angeles NEW!
Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive, California
Yosemite Winter Scene
Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania NEW!
View Near Shelburne, N.H., 1859
Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California
Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin
Sioux Village near Fort Laramie, 1859
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
Cloud Study, Moonlight, ca.1860
Brooklyn Museum, New York City NEW!
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
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Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Colby College Museum of Art, Maine
Chimney Rock, 1860
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Mount Corcoran
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
The Last of the Buffalo
Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College, Florida
Shoshone Indians-Rocky Mountains, 1859
Crocker Art Museum, California
In the Yosemite Valley, 1871-72
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
3 works online
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
The Matterhorn, ca.1867
Dayton Art Institute, Ohio
Scene In Yosemite Valley
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York NEW!
Nevada Falls
Five College Museums Collections Database, Massachusetts
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma
Yosemite Valley
Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Mountain Scene and River
Sierra Navada Morning
Haggin Museum, California
12 paintings online
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee
Across the Prairie, 1864
Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, New York
Yosemite Valley, ca.1865
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, Brunswick, New Jersey NEW!
Buffalo Hunter, ca.1888
Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Swiss Mountain Scene
Albert Bierstadt in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami, Florida
Yosemite Valley, California, ca.1863
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
The Sierras Near Lake Tahoe, California
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Landscape, ca.1890
Ruins of Paestum, 1858
The Merced River in Yosemite, 1868
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson NEW!
A Scene in the Rockies, Lake Silva Plana
Museum of Nebraska Art at the University of Nebraska
National Academy Museum & School of Fine Arts, New York City
On the Sweetwater Near the Devil's Gate, 1860
National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
3 paintings
New Bedford Whaling Museum, Massachusetts
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut
Seal
New-York Historical Society
3 paintings online
Portland Museum of Art, Maine
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey NEW!
Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina NEW!
Sierra Nevada, ca.1871
Rockwell Museum of Western Art, Corning, New York
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San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas
Passing Storm over the Sierra Nevadas, 1870
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California
Mirror Lake, Yosemite Valley, 1864
Seattle Art Museum
Sheldon Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
River Landscape
Albert Bierstadt at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Southern Alleghenies Museum, Pennsylvania
Stark Museum of Art, Texas
2 works online
The Huntington Library, California
The Newark Museum, New Jersey
Western Landscape, 1869
The Parthenon, Tennessee
Mount Tamalpais
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
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Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, California
Cho-looke, The Yosemite Fall
Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas
Mount Brewer from King's Canyon, California, 1862
U.S. Capitol Art Collection
Discovery of the Hudson River
Entrance into Monterey
USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles NEW!
A Stream in the Rockies, 1882
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Virtual Museum of Canada
Among the Sierra Nevada, California, 1868
Virtual Museum of Canada
Alaskan Coast Range, ca.1889
Wake Forest University Fine Arts Gallery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Niagara
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
2 works online
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas NEW!
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
Yosemite Falls, ca.1865-70
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Albert Bierstadt in the Art Renewal Center
Albert Bierstadt in the Artchive
Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: The Shore of the Turquoise Sea
Albert Bierstadt at CGFA
The Athenaeum 
Numerous works online by Bierstadt
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German) 
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California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
The History Project at U.C. Davis NEW!
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Miscellaneous Sites:
Mount Shasta Companion
A few paintings by Bierstadt (not all have thumbnails)
The Western hero: Visions and Revisions
University of Virginia Digital Collections
Storm in the Rocky Mountains, 1866
White Mountain Art and Artists
Why We Think Nature is Beautiful
Illustrated article by Eugene C. Hargrove
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Albert Bierstadt 
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide
"I never had so difficult a picture to paint": Albert Bierstadt's White Mountain Scenery and The Emerald Pool
Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide
Anti-Catholicism in Albert Bierstadt's Roman Fish Market, Arch of Octavius
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW!
Resource Library Magazine
Bernese Alps, 1859
Resource Library Magazine
Resource Library Magazine
Geysers in Yellowstone, ca.1881
Multimedia:
Antiques Roadshow (PBS) Appraisals NEW!
"Paintings Attributed to Albert Bierstadt, ca.1865"
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
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