The Emerald Pool #8
by Eric Glaser
Title
The Emerald Pool #8
Artist
Eric Glaser
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
"The Emerald Pool"
Artist: Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902)
Title: The Emerald Pool
Object Type: Painting
Date: 1870
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Location Created: Mount Washington, NH, United States
Dimensions: 76 1/2 x 119 in. (194.3 x 302.3 cm)
Collection: Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk VA USA
Credit Line: Bequest of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Whenever Albert Bierstadt unveiled one of his gigantic paintings, it was a spectacular event. City audiences flocked to see paintings like The Emerald Pool, one of his largest canvases, which shows off New Hampshire’s Mount Washington. Curtains and elaborate frames added theatrical grandeur to his exhibitions, and visitors brought opera glasses to study minute details. Although Bierstadt crisscrossed America to sketch its natural wonders from life, he often exaggerated scale in his paintings, indulging viewers’ taste for a thrilling vision of nature.
Image and Text Credit: Google Art Project and Wikimedia
Additional image editing by Eric Glaser
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May 21st, 2020
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