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Albert Bierstadt

Mount Starr King, Yosemite

1866
oil on canvas on panel-back stretcher
97 × 142.3 cm (38.2 × 56 in)

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

Highly successful, Bierstadt built a mansion and named it Malkasten, a German word meaning “paintbox.”

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