Gathering Storm(c. 1857-1858)
Albert Bierstadt painted this ((c. 1857-1858)), aged about 27. It is now at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC. More about this work
About this work
Albert Bierstadt painted this ((c. 1857-1858)), aged about 27. It is now at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC.
How it was made
- Oil paint
- Pigment ground in a drying oil, usually linseed. It dries slowly, so painters could blend on the canvas, build up thin translucent glazes, and rework a picture over weeks. Canvas replaced wooden panels in the 1500s because it is lighter and can be rolled.
Albert Bierstadt
American, 1830–1902 · Born in Solingen; died in New York.
Hudson River School
American landscape painters of the mid-1800s who made wilderness their grand subject.
Rights and the museum’s record
Public domain. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden has dedicated this image to the public domain under CC0, so anyone may copy, adapt and use it, for any purpose, without asking. Our prints and files are reproductions made from the museum’s image; the museum doesn’t endorse them.
- Object number
- 66.503
- Credit
- Courtesy of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution
- Type
- Painting
- Department
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- Licence
- CC0 1.0 Universal
- Museum record
- See it on the museum’s site
