About the Artwork
Vernal Fall
1863
Albert Bierstadt
1830-1902
American
Unknown
Oil on paper, mounted on canvas
Unframed: 19 × 14 inches (48.3 × 35.6 cm) Framed: 24 1/4 × 19 3/8 × 1 3/8 inches (61.6 × 49.2 × 3.5 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Gift of Carl F. Clarke
53.126
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Markings
Signed, at lower right, ABierstadt [AB in monogram]
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Provenance
Carl F. Clarke
1953-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Hendricks, Gordon. “The First Three Western Journeys of Albert Bierstadt.” The Art Bulletin, 46, 3 (September 1964): pp. 333-365.
Westward the Artist. Exh. cat., Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences. Peoria, IL, 1968, no. 9 (ill.).
Hendricks, G. Albert Bierstadt. New York, 1973 (CL-136, ill.). [incorrect title cited for illustration]
Manthorne, Katherine and Tricia Laughlin Bloom. The Rockies and the Alps: Bierstadt, Calame, and the Romance of the Mountains. Exh. cat., Newark Museum. Newark, 2018, p. 116, cat. 44.
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Albert Bierstadt, Vernal Fall, 1863, oil on paper, mounted on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Carl F. Clarke, 53.126.
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