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BIERSTADT, Albert: Merced River, Yosemite Valley

🖼 Merced River, Yosemite Valley, 1866
New York, United States

Golden light bathes a vast valley where the Merced River winds through granite cliffs, rendered in luminous detail with dramatic atmospheric perspective. Bierstadt's monumental landscape epitomizes 19th-century American romanticism, transforming Yosemite into a sublime wilderness icon that shaped national identity and conservation efforts.

Albert Bierstadt
Albert Bierstadt
Peter H. Hassrick
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