Mount Hood

Details

ALBERT BIERSTADT (1830-1902)
Mount Hood
signed with conjoined initials 'ABierstadt' (lower right)
oil on paper laid down on canvas laid down on masonite
image, 13 1⁄2 x 19 1⁄4 in. (34.3 x 48.9 cm.);
overall, 14 1⁄8 x 19 3⁄8 in. (35.9 x 49.2 cm.)
Painted circa 1889.

Provenance

Private collection, Memphis, Tennessee, by 1983.
By descent to the present owner.

Conditions of sale

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Lot Essay

We would like to thank Melissa Webster Speidel, President of the Bierstadt Foundation and Director of the Albert Bierstadt catalogue raisonné project, for her assistance in the cataloguing of this lot.

We would like to thank Allan Kollar for his assistance with identifying the location of the present work.

The present work depicts Mount Hood from the vantage point of Hood River in Oregon, facing north along the Columbia River. The Sandy Glacier Headwall is visible under the peak on the left side.

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