Albert Bierstadt
- Japan Watson-Guptill Publications Inc. 1988
- 84p. ;pictures, 26cm
Albert Bierstadt is best remembered for accomplishing for the West what the Hudson River School Painters had accomplished for the Catskills.Employing huge canvasses befittinh his subjects ,Bierstadt was the first artist to capture the monumentality of the American Wilderness ,thereby satisfying the contemporary public's desire for depictions of the mostly unknown and uninhabited West.