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accession number: 1922.684
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Mount Starr King, Yosemite, 1866. Albert Bierstadt (American, 1830–1902). Oil on canvas on panel-back stretcher; framed: 135.3 x 181 x 15.6 cm (53 1/4 x 71 1/4 x 6 1/8 in.); unframed: 97 x 142.3 cm (38 3/16 x 56 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 1922.684
title: Mount Starr King, Yosemite
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creation date: 1866
creation date earliest: 1866
creation date latest: 1866
current location: 206 American Landscape
creditline: Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection
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culture: America, 19th century
technique: oil on canvas on panel-back stretcher
department: American Painting and Sculpture
collection: American - Painting
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Albert Bierstadt (American, 1830–1902) - artist
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measurements: Framed: 135.3 x 181 x 15.6 cm (53 1/4 x 71 1/4 x 6 1/8 in.); Unframed: 97 x 142.3 cm (38 3/16 x 56 in.)
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inscription: signed lower right: ABierstadt. / 66 [AB in monogram]
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The Artist in the American West, 1800-1900
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The Artist in the American West, 1800-1900. Santa Fe Musuem of Art (co-organizer).
title: Inaugural Exhibition
opening date: 1916-06-06T05:00:00
Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916).
title: The World of the Romantic Artist: A Survey of American Culture from 1800-1875
opening date: 1944-12-28T04:00:00
The World of the Romantic Artist: A Survey of American Culture from 1800-1875. The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (organizer) (co-organizer) (December 28, 1944-January 28, 1945).
title: The Hudson River School and the Early American Landscape Tradition
opening date: 1945-02-15T04:00:00
The Hudson River School and the Early American Landscape Tradition. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (organizer) (co-organizer) (February 15-March 25, 1945); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (April 17-May 18, 1945).
title: American Artists Discover America
opening date: 1946-02-02T05:00:00
American Artists Discover America. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (February 2-25, 1946).
title: A Retrospective Exhibition: Albert Bierstadt 1830-1902
opening date: 1964-08-05T04:00:00
A Retrospective Exhibition: Albert Bierstadt 1830-1902. Santa Barbara Museum of Art (organizer) (August 5-September 13, 1964).
title: The Mythology of the American West
opening date: 2007-09-28T00:00:00
The Mythology of the American West. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, Rouen, France (organizer) (September 28, 2007-January 7, 2008); Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, Rennes, France (February 18-May 18, 2008).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Catalogue of The Inaugural Exhibition (6 June-20 September 1916), cat. no. 2 as Starr King Mountain, California.', 'opening_date': '1916-06-06T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, The World of the Romantic Artist: A Survey of American Culture from 1800-1875 (28 December 1944-28 January 1945), cat. no. 45, p. 29 as Starr King Mountain, California.', 'opening_date': '1944-12-28T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Hudson River School and the Early American Landscape Tradition (15 February-25 March 1945); traveled to New York, Whitney Museum of American Art (17 April-18 May 1945); cat. no. 13 as Starr King Mountain, California, illus. p. 108.', 'opening_date': '1945-02-15T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Oberlin, Ohio, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, American Artists Discover America (2-25 February 1946), cat. no. 4, illus. p. 12 as Starr King Mountain, California, catalogue appears in Bulletin of the Allen Memorial Art Museum (February 1946), vol. 3, no. 1.', 'opening_date': '1946-02-02T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Santa Fe, Fine Arts Museum of New Mexico, The Artist in the American West, 1800-1900 cat. no. 2, illus. as Starr King Mountain, California.', 'opening_date': '1900-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, A Retrospective Exhibition: Albert Bierstadt 1830-1902 (5 August-13 September 1964), cat. no. 27, illus. as Starr King Mountain, California.', 'opening_date': '1964-08-05T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen (9/.28/2007 - 1/7/2008) and Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes (2/18/2008 - 5/18/2008): "The Mythology of the American West"', 'opening_date': '2008-01-07T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Chester G. Cutter, Nyack, NY (bought from artist)
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Frank E. Marshall, Philadelphia, PA
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(Vose Gallery, Boston, MA)
date: 1922
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1922-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
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Richardson, Edgar P. American Romantic Painting. Edited by Robert Freund. New York: E. Weyhe, 1944.
page number: Reproduced: p. 25, cat. 203
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Hendricks, Gordon. "The First Three Western Journeys of Albert Bierstadt." The Art Bulletin. 46:3 (September, 1964). pp. 333-365.
page number: Mentioned: p. 346; Reproduced: fig. 16
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Talbot, William S. "American Visions of Wilderness." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 56, no. 4 (1969): 151-66.
page number: Reproduced: p. 162, fig. 12; Mentioned: p. 163
url: www.jstor.org/stable/25152270
Talbot, William S. "American Visions of Wilderness." The Living Wilderness. 33:108 (Winter, 1969). pp. 14-25.
page number: Reproduced: p. 22, fig. 6
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Adams, Celeste, Rita Myers, and Adele Z. Silver. An Introduction to American Art in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1972.
page number: Mentioned: p. 8; Reproduced: p. 9
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"A Check List. American Paintings and Water Colors of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Early Twentieth Centuries in the Cleveland Museum of Art." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 60, no. 1 (1973): 21-35
page number: Reproduced: Front cover (detail); Mentioned: p. 22, no. 16
url: www.jstor.org/stable/25152465
Talbot, William S. "American Landscape Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art." Antiques. 104:5. pp. 906-917.
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Hendricks, Gordon. Albert Bierstadt: Painter of the American West. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1973.
page number: Reproduced: pp. 111-175, 321-324, illus. CL-186
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Startz, Jane. American Adventures: A Filmstrip History of the United States. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Scholastic Magazines, 1973.
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Johnson, Mark M. "American Landscapes. . .Scenes as Divergent as the Land Itself." Arts and Activities. 82:4 (December, 1977). pp. 28-32.
page number: Reproduced: p. 29, fig. 2
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Talbot, William. "Indian Summer by Jasper F. Cropsey." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 58, no. 3 (1980): 150-61.
page number: Mentioned: p. 158; Reproduced: p. 159, fig. 11
url: www.jstor.org/stable/41504663
Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.
page number: Reproduced: p. 132
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n147/
Robertson, Bruce. "Frederic A. Whiting: Founding the Museum with Art and Craft." In Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.
page number: Reproduced: p. 47
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Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993.
page number: Reproduced: p. 12
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Turner, Evan H. Foreward to Catalogue of Photography, by Tom E. Hinson, (ix-xii). Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.
page number: Mentioned: p. xi
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Coudert, Marie-Claude. La Mythologie de l'Ouest Dans l'Art Américain, 1830-1940. Edited by Laurent Salomé and Joan Carpenter Troccoli. Cinisello Balsamo, Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 2007.
page number: Reproduced: p. 137, fig. 24.; Mentioned: p. 138
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Adams, Henry. What's American About American Art?: A Gallery Tour in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008.
page number: Reproduced: p. 76 - 77
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Cole, Mark, "Picture Perfect", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 48 no. 8, October 2008
page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 9
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2008-08/page/8/
Green, Tyler. Emerson's Nature and the Artists: Idea As Landscape, Landscape As Idea. Munich: Prestel, 2021.
page number: Reproduced: P. 23, fig. 8
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