Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902)
Home of the Rainbow, Horseshoe Falls, Niagara, ca. 1869
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Oil on canvas
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16 5/8 x 22 1/16 inches
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Monogrammed lower right: ABierstadt
Provenance
- Private collection, Massachusetts
- Estate of above
- Kennedy Galleries, New York, New York
- Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts, 1981
- Private collection, New York
- Kennedy Galleries, New York, New York, 1985
- Mr. and Mrs. George Strichman, 1985
- Godel & Co. Fine Art, New York, New York, 1994
- Private collection, New York, 1996
- Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, New York, May 22, 2008, lot 63
- Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, New York
- Henry and Sharon Martin, Connecticut, acquired from above, 2008
- Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, New York, acquired from above, 2017
- Collection of J. Jeffrey and Ann Marie Fox, acquired from above
Exhibited
American Landscape: A Changing Frontier, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, April–June 1966
Niagara: Two Centuries of Changing Attitudes, 1697–1901, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, July 13–September 1, 1985; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, September 21–November 24, 1985; New-York Historical Society, New York, January 22–April 27, 1986
Literature
Jeremy Elwell Adamson, Niagara: Two Centuries of Changing Attitudes, 1697–1901 (Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1985), 69, fig. 63, 133, no. 28.
Kennedy Galleries Presents Fifteen Superb and Rare American Masterpieces (New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1989), no. 5.
Related Work
Niagara Falls, 1869, oil on canvas, 14 1/4 x 19 1/4 inches; Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California
Niagara Falls, oil on canvas, 38 1/8 × 31 inches, signed lower right: ABierstadt; Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Niagara from the American Side, ca. 1869, oil on paper mounted on canvas, 14 x 19 1/2 inches; monogrammed lower left: ABierstadt; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
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A Collector’s Journey
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