1870 (ca.), Albert Bierstadt, Evening -- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond)
From the museum label: Albert Bierstadt is renowned for his monumental paintings of the American West, but he also painted landscapes of the Hudson River Valley. Evening depicts a riverbank in the last moments of daylight, its bright orange glow silhouetting the rolling hills in the distance. Around 1870 Bierstadt built a home and studio near Irvington, New York, and began to paint the natural landscape around him en plein air. These studies display an unusual combination of his distinctive illumination with quickly painted, expressive brushstrokes.
1870 (ca.), Albert Bierstadt, Evening -- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond)
From the museum label: Albert Bierstadt is renowned for his monumental paintings of the American West, but he also painted landscapes of the Hudson River Valley. Evening depicts a riverbank in the last moments of daylight, its bright orange glow silhouetting the rolling hills in the distance. Around 1870 Bierstadt built a home and studio near Irvington, New York, and began to paint the natural landscape around him en plein air. These studies display an unusual combination of his distinctive illumination with quickly painted, expressive brushstrokes.