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BIERSTADT, Albert: The Merced River in Yosemite

🖼 The Merced River in Yosemite, 1868
Minneapolis, USA

Golden light bathes the Merced River as towering granite cliffs frame misty waterfalls in luminous detail. Bierstadt's monumental landscape epitomizes 19th-century American Romanticism, celebrating Western wilderness as sublime national treasure during westward expansion.

Albert Bierstadt
Albert Bierstadt
Peter H. Hassrick
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