Alaskan Coast Range
ca. 1889
- Medium
- oil on paper mounted on paperboard
- Dimensions
- 35.2 × 49.2 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-140362
Albert Bierstadt traveled through western Canada in 1889 on the Canadian Pacific Railway. He headed to Alaska by steamer in search of "wild places in the mountains," but was shipwrecked in Loring Bay. He lived with the other passengers in Native American huts and filled two books with drawings and paintings of his surroundings. (Anderson and Ferber, Albert Bierstadt: Art and Enterprise, 1990) Thi…
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Orrin Wickersham June
Registry history
- ca. 1889 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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