SOLD South and North Moat Mountains
by Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902)25½ x 18⅞ inches
Monogrammed lower left: AB
SOLD
Provenance
Capricorn Galleries, Potomac, Maryland
Private collection, by 1979
Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, New York, September 17, 2019, lot 106, from above
Private collection, acquired from above
Exhibited
(Possibly) Adams Davidson Galleries, Washington, DC, Portraits of Places: A Survey of American Landscapes, March 8–April 3, 1979
William Penn Memorial Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Hudson River School, April–July 1979
Palmer Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, All That Is Glorious Around Us: Paintings from the Hudson River School on Loan from a Friend of the Museum of Art, January–March 1981
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Iowa, The American Landscape Tradition, November 7, 1982–January 9, 1983
All That Is Glorious Around Us: Paintings from the Hudson River School, Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, August 10–October 26, 1997; Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, January 20–May 17, 1998; Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, March 13–June 27, 1999; The National Academy, New York, New York, July 14–September 12, 1999
Literature
John Driscoll, All That Is Glorious Around Us: Paintings from the Hudson River School on Loan from a Friend of the Museum of Art (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Museum of Art, 1981), 122, no. 2.
John Driscoll, All That Is Glorious Around Us: Paintings from the Hudson River School (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997), 8.
Related Work (see following pages)
Moat Mountain, Intervale, New Hampshire, ca. 1862, oil on paper laid down on canvas, 19⅛ x 26⅛ inches; The Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire
Note: Moat Mountain is a mountain range in Carroll County, New Hampshire near the White Mountains. The South Moat and North Moat are two peaks along the main ridge. Albert Bierstadt visited the area on several occasions, sometimes with his brother, a photographer. Bierstadt would help his brother find scenic views to photograph while he sketched the scenery.
Artist Biography
Master Hudson River School painter of the American West
By William Tylee Ranney Abbott
Albert Bierstadt was one of the most acclaimed and internationally recognized American landscape artists of his time. His paintings, characterized by magnificent and grandiose landscapes, exemplify the romantic and economically robust culture of late nineteenth-century America.
I. Biography
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