File:Emigrants Crossing the Plains, or The Oregon Trail (Albert Bierstadt), 1869.jpg

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Albert Bierstadt: Emigrants Crossing the Plains  wikidata:Q20576475 reasonator:Q20576475
Artist
Albert Bierstadt  (1830–1902)  wikidata:Q77132
 
Albert Bierstadt
Alternative names
Bierstadt
Description German-American painter, photographer, architectural draftsperson and scenographer
Date of birth/death 7 January 1830 Edit this at Wikidata 18 February 1902 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Solingen New York City
Work location
New Bedford, New York City, Irvington, New York, California
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q77132
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Emigrants Crossing the Plains
or
The Oregon Trail
Genre landscape art Edit this at Wikidata
Description

An 1869 oil on canvas painting of emigrants on their way to Oregon, ostensibly inspired by a fifty-wagon train of German emigrants who crossed Bierstadt's path during his 1863 expedition.

Referred to as Emigrants Crossing the Plains—Sunset in: Tuckerman, Henry T. (1870). Book of the Artists: American Artist Life, Comprising Biographical and Critical Sketches of American Artists: Preceded by an Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of Art in America. New York: G. P. Putnum & Son. p. 393. (source).
Date 1869
date QS:P571,+1869-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 78.7 cm (30.9 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 124.4 cm (48.9 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+78.7U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+124.4U174728
institution QS:P195,Q5002627
Accession number
946-O-101
Place of creation United States of America Edit this at Wikidata
Object history Gift of Joseph G. Butler, III, 1946
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ABierstadt / 1869
References The Butler Institute of American Art
Source/Photographer BOCA Museum of Art, from "American Treasures: Masterworks from the Butler Institute of American Art", December 13, 2011 through March 18, 2012.
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  • The Oregon Trail (Campfire)
    The Oregon Trail (Campfire)

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