Mountain Brook

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Mountain Brook, 1863. Oil on canvas.

Oil on canvas · 111.8 × 91.4 cm · Art Institute of Chicago

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Museum title: Mountain Brook
Artist: Albert Bierstadt (American, born Solingen, Prussia, now Germany, 1830–1902)
Date: 1863
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 111.8 × 91.4 cm (44 × 36 in.)
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 Collection
Image license: CC0 1.0 · Public domain
Museum record: Art Institute of Chicago

Artist’s life 1830–1902

Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.