Gallery of Albert Bierstadt Paintings
Gallery of Albert Bierstadt Paintings

Albert BierstadtAlbert Bierstadt (1830-1902) is best known for his huge, panoramic landscapes of the unsettled west.  He was born in Germany, and was two years old when his family emigrated to America and settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts. 

Beginning in 1859, he made three trips west, each time making oil sketches on paper. When he returned to his New York studio, he used these sketches and oil studies to paint huge (some 6 feet by 10 feet) detailed panoramic views of Western scenery. His paintings emphasized the spectacular landscapes, sometimes exaggerating what he had seen and changing a few details to make the scene more interesting.

At the height of his career, he lived in a mansion on the Hudson; but his work fell out of favor and he died in New York City flat broke.  A fuller biographical sketch of Bierstadt is available.  Also of interest may be a view from two stereoscope cards that shows Bierstadt painting at an Indian camp.

I have admired the work of Albert Bierstadt for several years, but haven't sufficient space in my home to display more than a few prints. So, I created this section of my website as a tribute to his work. Though there are amazingly over 875 paintings displayed on these "walls," (and an assortment of black and white scans in the online "storage room"), this gallery is not intended to be a complete nor definitive collection of his works.  Many of his paintings and sketches were lost when his studio and home burned

You can purchase prints of his works at many places, though many paintings are available only in private collections or in museums. AllPosters has over 175 Albert Bierstadt prints available for sale, and Art.com has about 165 Albert Bierstadt prints for sale.  Both sites can frame the print for you with your choice of molding and matts; Art.com can transfer it to artist canvas as well.


Note:  If a paintbrush is displayed below a painting in the gallery, click on the painting to enlarge it.
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Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California (1868)
After A Norther, Bahamas
A Rustic Mill  (1855)
Bahamas Harbor (1882)
The Portico of Octavia, Rome (1858)
Cho-Looke, Yosemite Falls (1864)
Beach Scene (1872)
Alaska Coast Range
Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite (1872)
Canadian Rockies (1889)
Buffalo Trail (The Impending Storm) (1869)
Capri (1857)
California Spring (1875)
The Domes of the Yosemite Valley (1867)
Rocky Mountain Sheep (1882-3)
Rocky Mountain Big Horns
Scene in the Rocky Mountains (before 1875)
Salem Landscape
Salmon Fishing on the Cascapediac
Salmon Fishing on the Northwest Coast (1889)

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Moose (1850)
Mount Aetna (1868)
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Mountain House
Mountain Scene
Mounted Trapper
Mount Shasta
On the Pacific Coast, California
Overlook Mountain from Olana (circa 1866-70)
Ox
Panoramic View, Harbor Nassau, Bahamas
Rainbow over Jenny Lake, Wyoming (1870)
Rowing off the Rocks
Shady Pool, White Mountains, New Hampshire (1869)
Sneffel's Peak, Colorado
Stormy Lake Scene (Pacific Northwest)
Studies of Bison
Study of a Buffalo
Sunset
Sunset in the Nebraska Territory
The Conflagration
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Looking Down Yosemite Valley (1865) 10/
Lake Lucerne, Switzerland (1858)
The Rocky Mountains, Landers Peak 11/ (1863)
Last of the Buffalo
(1888)
In the Mountains (1867)
Merced River (1866)
Autumn Woods (1886)
Mirror Lake, Yosemite Valley (1864)
Moose (1850)
Mountain out of the Mist
Mount Adams, Washington (1875)
The Mountain Brook (1863)
The Plains near Fort Laramie (1863)
Mountain Lake (1865)
Street in Nassau (1878)
Storm Among the Alps (1856)
Sunset on the Lake
The Fishing Fleet (1862)
Sunset
over the River
Sunrise on Mt. Tacoma

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Nassau Harbor (1877)
Near Salt Lake City, Utah (1881?)
Niagara Falls (1869) 1/

Nevada Falls (1865)
The Island (1889-93)
The Oregon Trail (1867-9) 
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Passing Storm over the Sierra Nevadas (1870)
A Rest on the Ride (1863-4)
Rainbow over the Sierra Nevadas
River Landscape (1867)
Puget Sound, on the Pacific Coast (1870)
Yosemite Valley, California (1866)
Yosemite Valley, California
Sunset over New York
Sunset in California - Yosemite
Sunset over a Mountain Lake
Sunset on the Prairies
Sunset on the Mountain
The Wave (1880)
The Valley Floor

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Rocky Mountain Lake
Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie (1866)
The Shore of the Turquoise Sea (1878)
Sierra Nevada Morning (1870)
Sierras Near Lake Tahoe (1865)
Sierra Nevada (1871-73)
San Francisco Bay (1871-73)
Estes Park
Storm on the Matterhorn (1886)
Sundown at Yosemite (1863)
Sunlight and Shadow (1862)
Sunset Glow (1866)
Surveyors Wagon in the Rockies (1859)
Sweetwater River, Wind River Mountains
(1859)
The Three Sisters
The Open Glen, New England (1875-9)
The Wetterhorn (1857)
The Weather Rock
Two Deer in a Landscape
View of Baltimore's Washington Monument (1876)

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The Buffalo Head (1879)
Wind River Mountains, Nebraska Territory (1862)
View of Parliament Buildings from the Grounds
Wasatch Mountains, Nebraska (1859)
White Mountains, New Hampshire
Wind River Country (1859)
The Great Trees, Mariposa Grove, California (1876)
The Wetterhorn (1857)
Looking up Yosemite Valley (1865-7)
Yosemite Winter Scene
Salt Lake City, Wasatch Mountains, Uintah Range (1863)
Wreck of the "Ancon" in Loring Bay, Alaska (1889)
Lower Falls, Yellowstone
White Mountains, New Hampshire (1863)
Twin Peaks, Rockies
Trees, Rocks, and Moss
Tropical Landscape
Valley in King's Canyon (1871)
Upcoming Storm
Tyrolean Landscape (1868)

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Sacramento River Valley (1872)
Moat Mountain, Intervale, New Hampshire (1862)
The Wolf River, Kansas (1859)
Cathedral Rock, Yosemite (1872)
North Fork of the Platte, Nebraska (1863)
Marina Piccola, Capri
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Guerrilla Warfare (Pocket Duty in Virginia)
(1862)
Lake in Yosemite
Valley of the Yosemite (1864)
Across the Prairie (1864)
Ruins of Paestum (1858)
Landscape
Swiss Mountain Scene
River Scene (1858)
Wasatch Mountains
Wasatch Mountains, Utah
Wapiti
View of the Grindelwald
Buffalo Country
Mountain Glade

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Swiss Mountain Cabin
Stream in the Rocky Mountains
The Old Mill (1855)
Sunset in the Yosemite Valley (1869)
Sunrise in the Sierras (1872)
View of the Rocky Mountains
Thunderstorm in the Rocky Mountains (1859)
Yosemite Valley (1863)
Merced River in Yosemite (1866)
Vernal Falls
The Trappers' Camp (1861)
Sierra Nevadas
Yosemite Valley, Glacier Point Trail (1873)
Yosemite Valley (1863)
Wisconsin Sunset
Western Landscape
Western Landscape
Western Landscape
Western Kansas (1875)
Western Trail

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The Buffalo Trail (1867)
The Matterhorn (1867)
Indians Traveling near Fort Laramie (1861)
Cathedral Forest
Old Faithful, Yellowstone (1886)
Mt. Brewer, Kings River Canyon
Southern Sierras from near Camp Independence
Sierra Nevada (from the Head of Carson River) (1872)
Bear Necessities
Lower Yellowstone Falls (1881)
Unknown
The Bombardment of Fort Sumter (1863)
Yosemite
Yosemite Valley
Trees
Westphalian Landscape (1855)
Woodland Interior, Catskills
Woodland Scene, Early Autumn
Yellowstone Park
Breaking Spray

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Along the Hudson
Western Landscape
Grizzly Bears
(1850)
Four Indians (1859)
Mt. Jefferson (1863)
Peaceful Valley
Butterfly
(1873-1900)
Lower Yosemite Valley
Giant Redwood Trees of California (1874)
Canoes (1888)
Boats Ashore at Sunset
Splendour of the Grand Tetons
Mount Hood, Oregon (1865)
The Morteratsch Glacier,
Upper Engadine Valley, Pontresina (1895)
Blue Mountain and Lake (1857-1862)
Black Point, San Francisco Bay
Bernese Alps (1859)
Beach at Nassau
Bakers Beach, San Francisco
Autumn Landscape

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Pioneers of the Woods (1858)
Lake Louise (1892)
Italian Lake Scene
Bahama Cove
Wooded Landscape
View of the Hudson Looking Across the Tappan Zee (1866)
Palm Tree, Nassau
Dogwood
Multonah Falls
The Ambush (1876)
Buffalo Hunt
Trappers
On the Merced River (1863)
Mariposa Indian Encampment (1872)
Bahamian View
Autumn Landscape, The Catskills
Autumn Landscape
Autumn in America, Oneida
Among the Bernese Alps
Approaching Thunderstorm on the Hudson River

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South Front of the White House
Sioux Camp near Laramie Peak
Waterfall, Minnehana Falls, Minnesota
Grizzly Bear
Clouds Coming over the Plains
Echo Lake, Franconia Mountains (1861)
Upper Falls of the Yellowstone
On the Plains (1863)
Lake Tahoe, California (1867)
Rocky Mountains
Kings River Canyon, California (1873)
El Capitan, Yosemite Valley (1875)
Evening on the Prairie (1870)
A Quiet Pond
Approaching Storm (1854)
Alaska Sunset (1889)
A View in the Bahamas (1879)
A View from Sacramento (1875)
A Study of Snow-Capped Mountains
A Mountain Stream

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Twilight, Lake Tahoe
A Halt in Yosemite (1870)
Pines in Winter (1870)
Autumn in Conway Valley, Looking Towards Mt. Washington (1858)
Foothills, Rocky Mountains
Mountain Vista
Hanabach, Westphalia, Germany
Cloud Effects over Estes Park, California (1876-7)
Canoe by the Edge of the River
Forest Monarchs (after 1875)
Tropical Coast
Autumn in the Sierras (Kings River Canyon) (1873)
Western River
Mount Sir Donald, Asulkan Glacier (1890)
A Snow-Covered Peak
A River Estuary
Seal Rocks off Pacific Coast
Seal Rock, California (1872)
Ocean Pool, Parralan Islands
Sierra Nevada Mountains
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Horse in the Wilderness (1859-60)
Morning in the Rocky Mountains (1862)
The Rocky Mountains - Longs Peak (1877)
On the Platte River, Nebraska
Westphalia, Germany (1855)
Wind River Country (1860)
The Overland Trail (1869)
New England Landscape
The Cascades, a Western Landscape
Mt. Rosalie and Mt. Evans, Colorado
Indian Camp (1859)
Passaic River
Three Hunters Stalking a Big Horn Sheep in Snow
Mormon Boy (1863)
Mount Blanc
Mountain Silhouette
Four Rainbows Over Niagara Falls
Moose Hunters' Camp, Nova Scotia (1880)
Rocky Mountain Sheep (1879)
Yellowstone Lake

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Light in the Forest
Liberty Cap, Yosemite (1873)
Landscape - Hill and Dale
Landscape with Trees and Lake
Landscape with Distant Mountains
Landscape with Cows
Landscape Study, Yosemite California
Landscape, New Hampshire (1858)
Lake Tahoe
Lake in the Rockies
Kings River Grove
Italian Hunter
Island of New Providence (1891)
Indians Spear Fishing
Harbor and Masted Ship
Cove with Beach and Church
Canadian Rockies Asulkan Glacier
Bay of Monterey
Deer in a Landscape
Black Horse (1859)
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Indian Scout
In the Western Mountains
In the Foothills of the Rockies (1870) 4/
Irvington Woods
Moonlit Landscape
Kern River Valley, California (1871)
In the Big Horn Mountains
High in the Mountains
Headwaters of  the Green River
Halt at the Campsite, Yosemite
Grunewald
Green Mountains, Vermont
Grand Tetons
Golden Light of California (1860s)
Evening at Owens Lake, California
In the Foothills (1861)
Lake Mary, California
Moonlit Landscape
Ferns and Rocks on an Embankment (1869)
On the Saco

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Forest Scene
Fishing from a Canoe (1859)
Fishing Boats
Fisherman by Campfire
Figures in Hudson River Landscape
Expansive Landscape with Mountains
Elk Grazing
Elk Feeding at First Light, Yosemite (1870)
Deer at Sunset
Days Beginning (1856)
Cows Watering in a Landscape
Courtyard of a Manor House
Coastal View, Newport (1861)
Coastal Scene
Rainbow over Fallen Stag
Rhone Valley
Rocca de Secca (1858)
Cadillac Mountain, Bar Harbor, Maine
Staubbach Falls near Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland (1865)
Mount Saint Helens, Columbia River, Oregon

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Coastal Scene
Cloud Study, San Francisco
Clam Diggers
Cathedral Rock, a Yosemite View (1872)
Canoe on a Lake
Campfire, Yosemite Valley, California
Cascading Falls
Call of the Wild
California Oaks
California Coast
Buffalo on the Plains (1873)
Buffalo Hunt
Buffalo Herd
Landscape with Snow-Capped Mountains
Seascape
Landscape with Deer (View of Estes Park, CO) (1876)
Mount Washington (1862)
Sailing on the Hudson
Campfire Site, Yosemite (1873)
Sunset Deer and River (1868)

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Men in Two Canoes (1866)
Lowering at Dusk
Longs Peak, Estes Park, Colorado (1876)
Listen (1870)
Mono Lake, Sierra Nevada (1872)
Montmorenci Falls, Quebec (1880)
Mount Hood, Oregon (1869)
Mountain Landscape
Mountain Lake
Mountain Canoeing
Mountain Scene (1871-79)
Mountain Resort (1859)
Mountain Peaks
Mountain Landscape
By a Mountain Lake (1880-8)
The Columbia River, Oregon (1862)
Indian Summer on the Hudson River (1861)
California Sunset
Wasatch Mountains Wind River Country, Wyoming
West Indies Coast Scene (1880-93)

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Nassau
Mounted Indian in Sunset
On the Trail to Vernal Falls
Nevada Falls, Yosemite
Natures Paradise
Niagara Falls (1869)
On the Lake
On the Hudson near Irvington (1866)
Rising Mist
Reflections
Rainy Day in Autumn, Massachusetts (1857)
Peaks in the Rockies
Sailboats on the Hudson at Irvington (1889)
Rocky Mountains
Old Faithful
(1881-6)
Old Faithful
(1881-6)
Seals
Florida Scene
The Grand Tetons
Indian Encampment, Late Afternoon (1862)

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The Sierra Nevadas (1872)
Elk
Pikes Peak
Cathedral Rocks (1870-72)
Sunset over the River
Blue and White Cloud
Conway Valley, New Hampshire
Sunset in the Rockies (1866)
Rocky Mountains (with Lake)
Conway Meadows, New Hampshire
Forest Sunrise
An Indian Encampment (1861)
Echo Lake
Indian Fisherman
Forest Stream
Indians Fishing
Lake Tahoe, Spearing Fish by Torchlight (1875)
Landscape, Rockland County, California (1872)
Mountain Mist
Rocky Mountain Goats (1885)

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Sea Cove (1890)
Sunset of the Prairies
The Fallen Tree
The Golden Gate (1900)
Tropical Landscape with Fishing Boats in the Bay
View of Chimney Rock, Ogalillalh Sioux Village (1860)
Wharf Scene
Yosemite Valley, Twin Peaks (1859)
Nebraska on the Plains (1863)
Bears in the Wilderness (1870)
Deer in a Clearing
Deer in a Field (1885)
Fishing Station on Watch Hill
Mountainous Landscape
Seaweed Harvesting
A Native of the Woods
Bavarian Landscape 2/
Bison with Coyotes in the Background
Cathedral Rock in Yosemite in Winter
Chimney Rock (1859)

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Deer in a Mountain Field (1879)
Emerald Sea
Evening Glow at Lake Louise
Falls of Niagara from Below
Indian Encampment
Olevano (1860)
On the Plains, Sunset
On the Sweetwater Near Devil's Gate (1860)
Oregon Trail
Toward the Setting Sun (1862)
Scene in the Tyrol (1854)
Snow-capped Mountain at Twilight
South and North Moat Mountains (1862)
Study for Gosnold at Cuttyhunk
(1858)
Study for Yosemite Valley Glacier Point Trail (1873)
Sunrise over Forest and Grove
Sunset on the Coast (1865-6)
Waterfall
White Horse and Sunset (1863)
Wind River, Wyoming (1870)

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Autumn View in Waterville, Oneida County, New York
Blue Skies White Mountains, New Hampshire
Butterfly (1873-1900)
California Coast
Camp Independence, Colorado
Costume Study, Seated Woman
Deep in the Rockies
Discovery of the Hudson River (1874)
Entrance into Monterey (1876)
Evening on Oneida Lake
Fir Trees and Storm Clouds (1870)
Five Indians (1859)
Geysers in Yellowstone Park (1881)
Hunting Scene (1880)
Moose in a Forest Glen (1885)
Inyo County California
Italian Costume Studies (1857)
Lakeshore in Northern Italy
Wagon Train
Wagon Train

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Mount Corcoran (1877)
Seal Rock (1872)
Seals on the Rocks, Farallon Islands (1872)
View of Donner Lake, California (1872)
The Falls of St. Anthony, Mississippi (1887)
Donner Lake from the Summit (1873)
Fishing Boats at Capri (1857)
Grandeur of the Rockies
Grazing
Half Dome, Yosemite Valley
(1866)
Hetch Hetchy Canyon (1875)
Haying in Conway Meadows (1864)
Hetch Hetchy Valley
Sunlight Forest
Upper Rapids Niagara Falls
Snow-Capped Peaks
Seals on the Rocks at Farallon
Scene in the Sierra Nevada (1861)
Sunrise at Glacier Station (1889-90)
Sunlit Forest
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The Grizzly Giant Sequoia, Mariposa Grove, California (1875)
Grazing Deer (1861)
The Emerald Pool (1870)
High Sierras near Big Tree Grove, Kings River
Kings Canyon
The Landing of Columbus (1893)
Mount Tamalpais
Rocky Mountains
The Grand Tetons, Wyoming
Cascading Falls at Sunset (1863-1879)
Geyser, Yellowstone Park (1881)
Gosnold at Cuttyhunk (1858)
Sunrise, Yosemite Valley (1870)
A Rocky Cove
Coastal Scene, California Coast
Hetch Hetchy Valley
Nebraska Homestead
Making Camp
Mount Rainier (1863-90)
Mountain Landscape, Wind River Range
Wall 27
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Owens Valley, California (1872)
Snowy Mountain Peaks
Storm in the Rocky Mountains
Twilight over the Path
Valley of the Hetch Hetchy
Yosemite Valley (1868)
Indian Horse Race
View near Newport (1859)
Mount Hood, Oregon (1865)
Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak (1863)
Farralones Islands, Pacific Ocean
Antelope
Estes Park, Colorado
Nevada Falls, Yosemite (1872)
Sunrise on the Matterhorn (1875)
Sierra Nevada
California Scenery
Mountain Pool
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White Mountains Study of Ferns above Emerald Pool
Cloud Study, Moonlight
Autumn Landscape
Iceberg Study
Sky Study
Tottenham Church, London
White Mountains-Echo Lake
Hunter in the White Mountains near Glen House
The Matterhorn (Valley of Zermatt, Switzerland)
The Matterhorn
(1867)
Butterfly (1900)
Butterfly (1900)
Butterfly
(1873-1900)
Indian Encampment at Sunset
Indian Encampment, Shoshone Village (1860)
Rocky Mountain Landscape
Rocky Mountain Waterfall
Rocky Mountains (1866)
Western Landscape (1870-80)
Snow-capped Mountain
Sunrise Mountain Landscape
The Flight
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Near Oakland, California
A Summer Work Day'
Mountain House
The Boating Party
The Departure of Hiawatha (1868)
View of Italy
Alaska (1889)
Carmel Mission
Autumn Birches
Butterfly
(1873-1900)
Farralon Islands, California
Fishing Boats Off the Southern Italian Coast
Gates of the Yosemite (1882)
Indians in Council, California (1872)
Italian Fishing Boats
Lake View, Italian Alps
Mt. Baker, Washington, from the Frazer River (1890)
Oregon Coastline
Point Lobos
Pueblo Maiden
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Seal Rocks, Farallons (1872)
Summer Landscape with Farmhouse
Sunset Landscape
Mountain Lake
Tropical Scene
Untitled Landscape - Florida or the Bahamas
Early Navigators of the 15th Century
Coast of California
Cypress Point
Division Lake, California (1871)
Mount Chocorua, New Hampshire (1857-69)
High Sierras (1872-3)
House in the Woods (1856)
Lake Angela, Summit of the Sierra (1871-2)
Landscape
Landscape with Deer, After the Storm
Martha Simon, Last of the Narrangansetts (1857)
Farm Building with Mountain in the Background
Mountain Lake
The Trout Brook (1859)
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Mountain Scene (1890)
Mountain Scene
Mountain Stream
Mt. Baker from the Fraser River
Mt. Rainier from the Southeast (1889)
Mt. Rainier from Lake Washington (1889)
Mount Shasta and Castle Lake
New Jersey Landscape
Niagara
(1881-9)
Old Faithful (1881-6)
Piz Bernina, Switzerland (1880-90)
Salerno, Night on the Beach
Salt Cay, Bahamas
Storm Clouds
Study of Two Priests (1857)
Summit, Sierra Nevada
Sunset
Sunset, Grand Tetons (1872)
The Burning Ship (1867)
Western Landscape: Mountain, River, Wagons on Plain
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Western Landscape
Winter Scene of Lake Tahoe
View from the Wind River Mountains, Wyoming (1860)
Chamois, Switzerland
Geyser, Yellowstone Park
Ice Breaking Up
Untitled (1859)
Niagara (1881-9)
Snow in the Rockies
In the Tetons (1865)
Harbor Scene (1869)
Landscape (1869)
Antelope
Canadian Rockies (Lake Louise) (1889-92)
Saint Lawrence River from the Citadel, Quebec (1870)
Black Hills, Colorado
Blue Clouds in the Rockies
Butterfly
(1873-1900)
Cloud Study
Coming Storm
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Lawn at Malkasten (1866-82)
Mount Brewer from Kings River Canyon, California (1872)
Mountain Lake
Valley of the Yosemite
Yosemite Valley 3/
Ships in Moonlight (1859)
Sunglow
The Falls (1873)
Mount Washington from Saco River (1871)
View of Oakland
Pool in Forest (1870)
Estes Park, Colorado (1869)
Yosemite Valley
Landscape
Mount Shasta
Royal Arches, Yosemite Valley, California
In the Yosemite Valley (1866)
In Western Mountains (1865)
Lake Tahoe (1872)
Snow-Capped Mountains
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Study of a Buffalo
Autumn
Evening Sky
Lake Rosalie
Cloud Study
Clouds in Owens Valley
Clouds over California
Clouds over Mountain
Cowboy and Indian Study
Beached Ship
Italian Costume Sketch of a Kneeling Nun
German Forest
Incoming Clouds
Hillside Hesse-Cassel, Germany
Hudson River
Hudson River Landscape with Figures and Sheep
Hudson Valley
Jungfau from Interlaken
Grand Tetons, Wyoming
Fields and Valley, Westphalia, Germany
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Landscape with Cottage, Westphalia, Germany
Landscape with Pond, Westphalia, Germany
Butterfly
(1873-1900)
Portion of the Jungfrau from Gindelwald
Storm in the Mountains (1870)
Mountain in Sunset Glow
Mountain Lake
Mountain Landscape with Lake
Rolling Hills, Westphalia, Germany