Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite
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Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902), Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite, c 1871-1873, American. Oil on canvas. 91.7 × 67.0 cm. Courtesy of the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh (http://ncartmuseum.org); purchased with funds from the North Carolina Art Society (Robert F. Phifer bequest) and various donors, by exchange.
When, at the age of 29, the American painter Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) made his first trip to the American West, he was nothing short of astounded. Part of a government surveying team led by Colonel Frederick Lander, whose task was to map an overland route to the Pacific coast, Bierstadt was in fact so overwhelmed by the majesty, beauty, and sheer grandeur of the American landscape that he got no farther west than Wyoming. There he left the team and spent the summer sketching. That trip would be only the first of many to the American West and the beginning of so many paintings …
