Mount Starr King, Yosemite
1866
- Medium
- oil on canvas on panel-back stretcher
- Dimensions
- 97 × 142.3 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-109021
During the summer of 1863, Bierstadt visited Yosemite Valley in California and made numerous sketches. Back in his New York studio, he used them to produce many majestic paintings, including this view of the distant granite peak Mount Starr King. Such scenes thrilled East Coast audiences and helped encourage early movements to safeguard natural wonders. In 1864, President Lincoln signed a bill preserving Yosemite as public property; it became a national park in 1890. Bierstadt included two Native Americans with a packhorse in his composition, and their presence references the fact that Indige…
Provenance
Hurlbut Collection, 1922.684
Registry history
- 1866 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
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