BIERSTADT, Albert: Iceberg

✦ BIERSTADT, Albert

🖼 Iceberg, 1859

▣ Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

◎ Washington, United States

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Luminous ice dominates the composition, rendered in cool blues and whites with meticulous detail against stormy seas. Bierstadt's 1859 painting epitomizes American Romanticism's fascination with sublime, untamed nature and Arctic exploration's allure during westward expansion.

Albert Bierstadt

Peter H. Hassrick

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