File:Emigrants Crossing the Plains, or The Oregon Trail (Albert Bierstadt), 1869.jpg
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[edit]Albert Bierstadt: Emigrants Crossing the Plains | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q77132 |
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Title |
Emigrants Crossing the Plains or The Oregon Trail |
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Genre | landscape painting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description |
An 1869 oil on canvas painting of emigrants on their way to Oregon, ostensibly inspired by a fifty-wagon train of German emigrants who crossed Bierstadt's path during his 1863 expedition. Referred to as Emigrants Crossing the Plains—Sunset in: Tuckerman, Henry T. (1870). Book of the Artists: American Artist Life, Comprising Biographical and Critical Sketches of American Artists: Preceded by an Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of Art in America. New York: G. P. Putnum & Son. p. 393. (source). |
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Date |
1869 date QS:P571,+1869-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium |
oil on canvas medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259 |
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Dimensions |
height: 78.7 cm (30.9 in) ; width: 124.4 cm (48.9 in) dimensions QS:P2048,+78.7U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,+124.4U174728 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q5002627 |
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Accession number |
946-O-101 |
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Place of creation | United States of America | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Object history | Gift of Joseph G. Butler, III, 1946 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Inscriptions |
bottom right: ABierstadt / 1869
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References | The Butler Institute of American Art | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer | BOCA Museum of Art, from "American Treasures: Masterworks from the Butler Institute of American Art", December 13, 2011 through March 18, 2012. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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