Albert Bierstadt: Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast

by Patricia A. Junker

In 1870, Albert Bierstadt painted one of the most novel subjects of his career: Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast. The canvas resulted from newly reawakened interest in a region the artist had visited only briefly seven years before. Although Bierstadt claimed to have painted "a portrait of the place," he had never actually made it to Puget Sound in 1863 and the painting has long been dismissed as another "superb vision of dreamland." This book reveals...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295991240
• ISBN13: 9780295991245
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 9.0" x 11.9"