Albert Bierstadt was a German-American painter best known for his grandiose landscapes of the 19th-century American West. Born on January 7, 1830 in Solingen, Prussia, Bierstadt's family immigrated to ...

The century after the United States established its independence saw artists making works that were crucial to forming the country’s cultural identity.

Works by Albert Bierstadt, Mary Cassatt, Frederic Edwin Church ... thanks to a donation from the private collection of famed investor and University alumnus Peter Lynch and his late wife, Carolyn. The ...

$12. When “Knowing the West” debuted at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in September, Fayetteville Flyer noted that “the viewer cannot look at [Albert Bierstadt’s] ‘Sierra Nevada ...