White Mountains, Mount Adams

Artist Albert Bierstadt (American, 1830 - 1902)

Date1869

Mediumoil on cardboard

Dimensions11 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches (29.2 x 19.7 cm)
Frame: 16 3/4 × 13 × 3/4 inches (42.5 × 33 × 1.9 cm)

Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965

Object number31.14.22

ClassificationsPaintings

Label TextBierstadt made many studies of mountains for his paintings. He wanted to portray sublime subjects. He traveled not only in the American West, but also in the eastern part of the United States and Europe. An inscription on the back of this work identified it as Mount Adams in the White Mountains, which is in New Hampshire. The artist portrayed the mountain as a series of flat planes of shaded color.

ProvenancePurchased June 3, 1958 through (C. Bland Jamison, Santa Fe, New Mexico) by H.J. Lutcher Stark [1887-1965]; bequeathed September 2, 1965 to the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation; accessioned to the Stark Museum of Art

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