Collection Highlights
Civil Defense Volunteer Organization Uniform
1942-1945
1946.89a-c
Wool, silk, metal
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Autumn Woods
Title
Autumn Woods
Date
1886
Medium
Oil on linen
Dimensions
Overall (linen): 54 x 84 in. (137.2 x 213.4 cm)
Frame: 65 x 94 7/8 x 3 3/4 in. ( 165.1 x 241 x 9.5 cm )
Description
Landscape which depicts two rivers, the Chenango and the Unadilla, and a wooded area.
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Albert Bierstadt
Object Number
1910.11
Marks
Signed, lower right: 'A. BIERSTADT' On paper label pasted on stretcher: 'LONDON. AUTUMN WOODS. HEAD OF SUSQUEHANNA RIVER, N.Y. STATE. A. BIERSTADT / 1271 BROADWAY, NEW YORK.'
Gallery Label
The two rivers shown in this painting were near the home of Albert Bierstadt's wife (the donor) in Waterville, NY.
Provenance
Mrs. Albert Bierstadt, direct from the artist.
Bibliography
Catalogue of the Gallery of Art of the New York Historical Society, New York: Printed for the Society, 1915, p. 49.
Hendricks, Gordon, Albert Bierstadt: painter of the American West, New York: H.N. Abrams, 1974, n.p.
Baigell, Matthew, Albert Bierstadt, New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1981, pp. 62-3.
Koke, Richard J., American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society, Vol. II, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1982, pp. 43-5.
Hudson River Museum, ed., Paintbox Leaves: Autumnal Inspiration from Cole to Wyeth, (Yonkers: Hudson River Museum, 2010), 28-9
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
