The Bierstadt Art Society is exhibiting paintings by Joseph Edwards Alexander at the Wamsutta Club through Oct.3. The Bierstadt Art Society is a collaborative of local artists and art enthusiasts ...

“The Domes of Yosemite” by Albert Bierstadt Credit: Courtesy of St. Johnsbury Athenaeum In recent years, visitors who came to the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum to see “The Domes of the Yosemite” by Albert ...

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — The painter Albert Bierstadt is not, by definition, a native son of New Bedford. He was born in Prussia in 1830. However, he is certainly part of the communal family history. He ...

A negligent moment meant the end for a ship and a late-career breakthrough for an artist. It was Aug. 28, 1889, a windy morning at the Loring cannery, roughly 20 miles north of what is now Ketchikan ...

Albert Bierstadt was a German-American painter best known for his grandiose landscapes of the 19th-century American West. Born on January 7, 1830 in Solingen, Prussia, Bierstadt's family immigrated to ...

And why not? Albert Bierstadt is the greatest painter New Bedford ever produced. This summer you can see why at the New Bedford Art Museum’s exhibition Bierstadt — Nature & National Identity. This ...

Art history, like all history, fills its pages with figures who died tragically young. Raphael, Caravaggio, Van Gogh, T.C. Cannon. One of those names will be less familiar to most than the others. The ...

FRANCONIA, N.H. — Did it matter, really, that Albert Bierstadt’s rapturous 19th-century visions of the American west were far, far too good to be true? It depends how much truth mattered back then, in ...