Sketchbook
1881
Medium
bound volume of forty-six graphite drawings
Dimensions
overall (closed): 13.97 × 21.59 × 1.11 cm (5 1/2 × 8 1/2 × 7/16 in.)
Classification
Volume
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase with a grant from The Lucelia Foundation and funds given by Anne Barnett Hazel in honor of John Tilghman Hazel, Jr.)
Accession Number
2015.19.5298.1-46
Art Historical Context
Step into the intimate world of Albert Bierstadt's *Sketchbook* (1881), a treasured bound volume containing forty-six delicate graphite drawings. Measuring a portable 5½ × 8½ × 7/16 inches, compact treasure from the National Gallery of Art's Corcoran Collection captures the renowned Hudson River School artist's on-the-go creativity. Bierstadt, celebrated for his grand, luminous landscapes of the American West—like Yosemite's majestic peaks and the Rockies' wild vistas—often relied on such sketchbooks during his extensive travels to gather raw material for his monumental oil paintings. Created...
About the Artist
Albert Bierstadt · 1830–1902
Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) was a German-American landscape painter renowned for his monumental, luminous depictions of the American West. As a prominent member of the second generation of the Hudson River School and the Rocky Mountain School, Bierstadt created sweeping panoramas that captured the sublime grandeur of untamed wilderness with unprecedented theatrical scale and romantic vision. His ...