Albert Bierstadt · 1864
Valley of the Yosemite
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A late golden sunset over the Merced River in Yosemite, deer drinking at the water's edge below sheer granite cliffs — Bierstadt's small, glowing vision of the valley as Eden. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Up to 25.9 × 16 in · landscape
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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Materials & quality
›Canvas & inks
Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.
›Floater frame
Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.
›Posters
Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.
›Faithful to the source
Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.
The story of Valley of the Yosemite
Bierstadt first saw Yosemite in the summer of 1863 on his second western trip, travelling with the writer Fitz Hugh Ludlow, and wrote to his friend John Hay that he had found the Garden of Eden in America. He painted Valley of the Yosemite in 1864 in his New York studio from the plein-air studies of that trip. It is a smaller work than his large panoramas and was painted on paperboard, so it is often seen as a sketch for Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California of 1865. A cluster of deer rests in the foreground and the setting sun casts a yellow-orange glow over the whole valley.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Albert Bierstadt
Albert Bierstadt was a German-American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. He joined several journeys of the westward expansion to paint the scenes. He was not the first artist to record the sites, but he was the foremost painter of them for the remainder of the 19th century.
All Albert Bierstadt prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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