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Albert Bierstadt: Lake Tahoe, 1868
Source: Wikimedia Commons (see "image archives" below)
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Albert Bierstadt Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Albert Bierstadt available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
(There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Albert Bierstadt at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
The Wolf River, Kansas, ca.1859
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
Indians Spear Fishing, 1862
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Watercolor collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma
Emigrants Crossing the Plains, 1867
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
Albert Bierstadt at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
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
Akron Art Museum, Ohio NEW!
(Click on the "View objects by this artist" link)
Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, Missouri
High Sierra, ca.1880
Amon Carter Museum, Texas
Sunrise, Yosemite Valley
Arkell Museum at Canajoharie, New York NEW!
El Capitan, ca.1872-74
Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Los Angeles
Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive, California
Yosemite Winter Scene
Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania
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
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
(Undocumented Feature: In many cases the raw JPG image is much larger than displayed on the screen)
Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio NEW!
The Oregon Trail (click the "American Western Collection" link to see this painting)
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
Crocker Art Museum, California
In the Yosemite Valley, 1871-72
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
3 works online
Dayton Art Institute, Ohio
Scene In Yosemite Valley
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
Nevada Falls
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
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
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
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
Buffalo Hunter, ca.1888
Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Swiss Mountain Scene
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
3 paintings online
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami, Florida
Yosemite Valley, California, ca.1863
Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut
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
A Scene in the Rockies, Lake Silva Plana
Museum of Nebraska Art at the University of Nebraska
Museum of the National Academy of Design, 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
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite, ca.1871-73
Portland Museum of Art, Maine
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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 Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
River Landscape
Southern Alleghenies Museum, Pennsylvania
St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, Vermont
The Domes of Yosemite
St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, Vermont
A Quiet Cove
Stark Museum of Art, Texas
2 works online
The Huntington Library, California
The Newark Museum, New Jersey
Western Landscape, 1869
The Parthenon, Nashville, Tennessee
Mount Tamalpais, ca.1873
(Note: Images are generally larger than displayed on the museum's web page. Here is a link to the jpg image.)
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, California
Cho-looke, The Yosemite Fall
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
(Click the "American 1700-1900" category, then see the work in the second row of thumbnails)
U.S. Capitol Art Collection
Discovery of the Hudson River
Entrance into Monterey
USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles
A Stream in the Rockies, 1882
(Don't miss the "fullscreen" icon when viewing images)
Virtual Museum of Canada
Among the Sierra Nevada, California, 1868
Virtual Museum of Canada
Alaskan Coast Range, ca.1889
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Niagara, 1869
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
Yosemite Falls, ca.1865-70
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National 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)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Albert Bierstadt at The Art Renewal Center
Albert Bierstadt at The Artchive
Albert Bierstadt at The Athenaeum 
Numerous works online by Bierstadt
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German) 
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
California State University WorldImages Database
Albert Bierstadt at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
The History Project at U.C. Davis
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
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 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
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
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
Cathedral Rock, Yosemite, 1870
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
"Dealers' Insights: Albert Bierstadt" (2008)
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
White Mountains, New Hampshire, ca.1860
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
Resource Library Magazine
Bernese Alps, 1859
Resource Library Magazine
Resource Library Magazine
Geysers in Yellowstone, ca.1881
Multimedia:
Antiques Roadshow (PBS) Appraisals
"Paintings Attributed to Albert Bierstadt, ca.1865"
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