Entertainment & Arts
In 1872, painter Albert Bierstadt finished “View From Donner Lake, California,” which encompassed the mile-high waters of the Sierra Nevada with the sinewy wagon trails and the muscular, ramrod-straight tracks of the newly built transcontinental railroad.
Aug. 21, 2015
The Southwest Museum has quietly consigned to auction an important 1864 landscape by the American painter Albert Bierstadt in hopes of raising at least $1.5 million to boost the struggling museum’s endowment fund.
March 27, 1990
‘Beauty and Bounty’ at the Seattle Art Museum details Western expansion as viewed by artists.
Aug. 21, 2011
Manifest Destiny, in art
The Timken Gallery in Balboa Park continues to set a standard for scholarship and public education that other Balboa Park visual arts museums might strive to emulate.
June 3, 1986
This morning, the gavel at Christie’s New York auction house will fall on Albert Bierstadt’s monumental 1864 landscape, “Mount Hood in Oregon.”
May 23, 1990
The new Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum in Los Angeles has purchased an 87-piece Western art collection worth an estimated $8.7 million.
March 21, 1988
Emma Webster’s paintings are grand affairs: sweeping landscapes filled with forests and mountains and rivers and lakes, some bathed in golden light and others shrouded in shadows so deep you shudder.
Feb. 23, 2019
“Western art,” James Nottage mutters. “In some art circles, that’s considered an oxymoron.”
Sept. 16, 1994
California
The destructive Oakland fire consumed an extensive private collection of California art valued as high as $45 million.
Oct. 23, 1991