Bierstadt paintings in the Haggin Museum - Haggin Museum, Stockton, California

Magazine Antiques, Nov, 1999 by Alfred C. Jr. Harrison

8 Illustrated in American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, Sotheby's (New York), March 17, 1994, Lot 51.

9 Quoted in Hendricks, Albert Bierstadt, p. 316.

10 Sanders, The Haggin Collection, p. 32.

11 Illustrated in Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture of the 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries, Christie's (New York), December 4, 1992, Lot 253.

12 Quoted in Witold Rybczynski, A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century (Scribner, New York, 1999), p. 258.

13 Quoted in Anderson and Ferber, Albert Bierstadt, p. 59.

14 San Francisco Chronicle, August 9, 1885.

15 For a discussion of this work and its exhibition history, see Gerald L. Carr, Albert Bierstadt: An Exhibition of Forty Paintings (Alexander Gallery, New York, 1983), No. 21.

16 See, for example, Seal Rock of c. 1872 in the New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut (Anderson and Ferber, Albert Bierstadt, p. 239).

17 P. 350, quoted in Hendricks, Albert Bierstadt, p. 262.

ALFRED C. HARRISON JR. is the president of the North Point Gallery in San Francisco.