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BIERSTADT, Albert: Guerrilla Warfare

🖼 Guerrilla Warfare, 1862
New York, United States

Violent chaos erupts across a rocky landscape as mounted soldiers clash amid smoke and cannon fire, rendered in dramatic chiaroscuro. Bierstadt's 1862 painting confronted American audiences with the brutal reality of Civil War combat, departing from his romantic Hudson River School landscapes to document contemporary warfare's devastating toll.

Albert Bierstadt
Albert Bierstadt
Peter H. Hassrick
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