Salem, Oregon

Details

ALBERT BIERSTADT (1830-1902)
Salem, Oregon
signed with conjoined initials and inscribed with title 'Salem/ABierstadt' and indistinctly inscribed 'OR' (lower right)
oil on paper laid down on board
19 x 13 in. (48.3 x 33 cm.)
Painted circa 1863.

Provenance

George Gallenkamp, Orwell, Vermont.
Berry-Hill Galleries, New York.
George A.G. Darlow, Fort Myers, Florida.
Sotheby's, New York, 28 November 2001, lot 49, sold by the above.
Catherine Dail Fine Art, New York.
Acquired by the late owner from the above, 2007.

Further details

We would like to thank Melissa Webster Speidel, President of the Bierstadt Foundation and Director of the Albert Bierstadt catalogue raisonné project, for her assistance in the cataloguing of this lot. This work is included in the database being compiled for her forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work.

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Lot Essay

The present work depicts Salem, Oregon, and may have been painted around 1863, when Bierstadt embarked on his second western journey alongside Fitz Hugh Ludlow. The two men travelled throughout northern California and Oregon in late 1863 before returning to New York in December of that year.

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