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John Moosie
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Jun 24, 2007 - 03:06pm PT
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"Trying to "see" the Valley like Bierstadt saw it keeps my perspective focused on its transcendent excellence."
Beautiful thought Ed. As Ekay would say, this is the effort to keep the magic alive. Thanks.
That John Frederick Kensett painting of Rocky Point, Long Island looks alive. Truly fabulous.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 8, 2009 - 08:06pm PT
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Bierstadt's great from that second generation of Hudson River painters but my favorite is George Inness and California painters like William Keith and then later Arthur Mathews. I did this one.
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Allen Hill
Social climber
CO.
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I love his painting of Longs Peak that hangs in the Western History room of the Denver Public Library.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 8, 2009 - 09:10pm PT
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cleo
Social climber
Berkeley, CA
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I love Bierstadt.. I have a coffee table book, unfortunately, in Vermont.
His paintings are HUGE, if I recall correctly, like 10 ft x 5 ft. I remeber seeing one at the New York Met when I was in high school.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Hagerman, ID
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Ed: Bierstadt did great landscape art. I like all the artists of the Rocky Mountain School, but lean a little more toward Thomas Moran: since he even did some Idaho paintings and helped get Yellowstone------ National Park Status.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Moran
I also have to pitch a bar/restaurant in The Dalles Oregon.
Baldwin’s Saloon http://www.baldwinsaloon.com/history.html and yet another artist.
Baldwin’s is a nice place to catch a meal or a drink (or both) in a historic setting. However, the owner has worked hard at buying up originals from an Oregon based 19th century Landscape artist: John Engelhart, 1867-1915.
As you can tell: Engelhart is not a Bierstadt or Moran, but it was cool to eat and drink in a small historic restaurant full of his very large art. The owner eagerly showed us around: and explained the art and artist, as an obsession.
Apparently Engelhart did a lot of Yosemite paintings.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C. Small wall climber.
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The show in Vancouver is on until mid-January, and according to the website:
Expanding Horizons brings together for the first time works by American painters Frederic Church, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran, John Singer Sargent, Childe Hassam and Georgia O’Keeffe and their Canadian counterparts Otto Jacobi, David Milne, A.Y. Jackson, Emily Carr and Lucius O’Brien, among many others. Together with photographers such as Eadweard Muybridge, Carleton Watkins, Alfred Stieglitz, Alexander Henderson, William Notman and Benjamin Baltzly, these artists helped to shape our understanding of the North American landscape and our place within it. It was originally shown at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. I'll see if I can make a field trip and report - my guess is that they have only a few paintings or drawings from each.
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Gobee
Trad climber
Los Angeles
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Not sure where?
Werner's Yard!
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Lokesh
Mountain climber
Big Bear California
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My votes go out for Church and Moran. Moran was dramatic and had a great influence on key places being preserved like Yellowstone.
Church...like this one in the Met in the Lehman wing is knock down stunning...and gigantic. These artists, Bierstadt and Church in particular, were rock stars....and their paintings like Church's "Andes" and Bierstadt's "Sierra" would be undraped before large paying crowds like a U2 event or something.
My problem with Bierstadt, as awesome as his paintings are, Many of the key ones are BS...not even painted in the US....the Sierra picture found in many waiting rooms....is clearly the Alps in many respects...but it duped people who'd never been out to the West into believing that was the real deal. Even the Colorado one with the Indian camp is imaginary, and was painted as an answer to this stunning Church piece of South America (the detail is almost microscopic)...and Church encouraged people to come with magnifying glasses or opera glasses to appreciate his incredible nuance.
My two cents
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