Wagon Train

细节

ALBERT BIERSTADT (1830-1902)
Wagon Train
signed with conjoined initials 'ABierstadt' (lower right)
oil on paper laid down on board
11 ¼ x 15 in. (28.6 x 38.1 cm.)
Painted circa 1859-63.

来源

M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York.
Northern Natural Gas Co., Omaha, Nebraska, acquired from the above, 1957.
Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum, Los Angeles, California, by 1988.
Coeur d’Alene Art Auction, Hayden, Idaho, 30 July 2005, lot 177.
Thomas Colville Fine Art, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2012.

出版

W. Goetzman, J.C. Porter, The West as Romantic Horizon: Selections from the Collection of the InterNorth Art Foundation, Omaha, Nebraska, 1981, p. 74, no. 3.

展览

Kansas City, Missouri, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, The Last Frontier: An Exhibition of the Art of the Old West, October 5-November 17, 1957, pp. 7, 24, no. 8, illustrated.
Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Wilderness, October 9-November 14, 1971, n.p., no. 24.
Omaha, Nebraska, Joslyn Art Museum, Artists of the Western Frontier, July 3-October 17, 1976, pp. 8, 41, no. 15, illustrated.

业务规定

荣誉呈献

Tylee Abbott Senior Vice President, Head of American Art

tabbott@christies.com +1 212 707 5925

拍品专文

Renowned for his striking interpretations of the American West, Albert Bierstadt excelled in expressing his wonderment with his surroundings using paint. Painted around 1859-63, the present work likely dates to Bierstadt's first or second Western journey. In 1859, Bierstadt went on his first trip accompanying a government survey expedition to the Nebraska territory, reaching as far as present-day Wyoming. In 1863, the artist ventured even further, visiting Yosemite and San Francisco before traveling north into Oregon with the prominent New York writer Fitz Hugh Ludlow. Wagon Train adeptly captures the expanse of the Western frontier that the artist traversed. With the covered wagon and horses dwarfed by the vastness of the richly colored sky and mountains, Bierstadt emphasizes the still untapped beauty and grandeur of the West.

更多来自 Icons of the American West: The William I. Koch Collection

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