Art Institute of Chicago, Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Herbert A. Vance; fund of an anonymous donor; Wesley M. Dixon Jr. Fund and Endowment; Henry Horner Straus and Mr. and Mrs. Frederick G. Wacker Jr. endowment funds; through prior acquisitions of various donors, including Samuel P. Avery Endowment, Mrs. George A. Carpenter, Frederick S. Colburn, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Feinberg, Field Museum of Natural History, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Harding, International Minerals and Chemicals Corp., Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Loeff, Mrs. Frank C. Miller, Mahlan D. Moulds, Mrs. Clive Runnells, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Stone, and the Charles H. and Mary F.S. Worcester CollectionCC0 (public domain) · 1,832 × 2,250 px · Art Institute of Chicago · IIIF

1863 · Art Institute of Chicago

The Mountain Brook

Albert BierstadtWikidata

painting by Albert Bierstadt

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Date
1863Wikidata
Art Institute of Chicago: 1863
Medium
Oil on canvasArt Institute of Chicago
Wikidata: Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions
111.8 × 91.4 cmArt Institute of Chicago
Wikidata: 111.8 × 91.4 cm
Collection
Art Institute of Chicago, ChicagoWikidata
Genre
landscape paintingWikidata
Materials
oil paint, canvasWikidata
Inventory no.
1997.365Wikidata
Credit line
Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Herbert A. Vance; fund of an anonymous donor; Wesley M. Dixon Jr. Fund and Endowment; Henry Horner Straus and Mr. and Mrs. Frederick G. Wacker Jr. endowment funds; through prior acquisitions of various donors, including Samuel P. Avery Endowment, Mrs. George A. Carpenter, Frederick S. Colburn, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Feinberg, Field Museum of Natural History, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Harding, International Minerals and Chemicals Corp., Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Loeff, Mrs. Frank C. Miller, Mahlan D. Moulds, Mrs. Clive Runnells, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Stone, and the Charles H. and Mary F.S. Worcester CollectionArt Institute of Chicago

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Exhibition historyArt Institute of Chicago

New York, National Academy of Design, Thirty–Eighth Annual Exhibition, Apr. 14–June 24, 1863, cat. 6. Brooklyn Museum, Albert Bierstadt, Art and Enterprise, Feb. 8–May 6, 1991, cat. 36; San Francisco, Fine Arts Museum, June 6–Sept. 2, 1991, Washington, DC, National Gallery of Arts, Nov. 3, 1991–Feb. 17, 1992. Washington DC, National Gallery of Art, East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth Century American Landscape Photography, Mar. 12–July 16, 2017; New Orleans Museum of Art, Oct. 5, 2017–Jan. 7, 2018, cat. 82 (Washington DC only).
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