Puget Sound, on the Pacific Coast, (painting)

Object Details

Notes

Anderson, Nancy K., and Linda S. Ferber, "Albert Bierstadt: Art & Enterprise," New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with The Brooklyn Museum, 1990, pg. 214.

Summary

Coastal scene depicting a group of Native Americans struggling to pull a canoe to shore as rough surf pounds the beach, and dark storm clouds gather overhead.

Culture

Indian

Data Source

Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums

Date

1870

Control number

IAP 8A270017

painter

Bierstadt, Albert 1830-1902

Type

Paintings

Medium

Oil on canvas

Topic

Landscape--Washington

Landscape--Weather--Storm

Waterscape--Sound--Puget Sound

Figure group--Male

Ethnic

Architecture--Boat--Canoe

Record ID

siris_ari_394316

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