The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-01
IN ART CIRCLES

| The death of Albert Bierstadt. the American
| landscape painter last week in New York,
recalls one Of the first great art enthusiasms
that Minneapolis ever felt. At the first ex-
position large collection OF Bierstadt pic
| lures, then the top wave Of popularity
! were shown and the artist spent consider
! able time in the city, where he was the lion
| OF the hour. A reception held at the ex-
! position in his honor. He was the guest
| OF T. B. Walker and formed several friend
| ships in the city that lasted through his
! life.
Bierstadt was represented in subsequent
expositions and a considerable number Of
| his paintings were sold in the city. The
exposition bought two, paying for them in
| part in stock. These pictures are in the pub
| lie library gallery and are big, typographical
picture OF Mt. Tacoma and "a Turn in the
Wind that gives peculiar curl to big
turquoise. breaker On which warm light
falls. Among other purchasers were T. 3.
| Walker who has two landscapes, G. M. Lor-
| ing, S. c. Gale, E. J. Phelps and p. j.
Anderson. The Walker pictures small
| ones and they hang among his Baroizon pic
lures and do not suffer in the comparison
| One a California scene filled with golden
| light is quite similar in tone and refined
delicacy of color to Corot In same room.
| It was in his small landscapes that this art
! list did his best work that at times rose to
genuine artistic heights.
His big panoramic pictures had certain
value apart from their artistic quality for
| they brought to the east and to Europeans
| some idea Of the vast resources and majesty
| of nature in the undiscovered country of
| the far west. 1t was the newness and strange
ness of his locale that gave great impetus
/ to Bierstadt art in his prime. His was the
! pioneer of western scenic pictures and his
! imposing canvasses created sensations when
they were shown.
| mo INN of a
| American art lies largely in his influence
On the younger artists Another import
| ant service which he rendered was in pro-
| 1noIing an appreciation Of American themes
Flo was pupil of Leasing of the Dussei-
Gorf school and shared to some extent his
masters grandiose manner and exaggera-
tons and introduced these with his sterling
! artistic qualities into this country.
| Bierstadt returned to America, after six
years in Dusseldorf and Rome, in 1907. In
| 1867 he was sent abroad again by the gov
! eminent to study for his picture 1.-The Dis
! covery of the North River by Hendrick Hud-
| son." which with his 1.-The Settlement OF
California by the Spanish Priest, Father
| Juniporo' in the capitol In Washing
| ton. Lander's Peak and mount Rosalia.
are in London, and Estes Park is owned
| by the Earl of Dunraven.
| The great gallery of the Hermitage, in ST.
| Petersburg, contains 'sVfew on the Kern
River" and sunset among the Sierra Ne
vada mountainsj and painting OF scene
among the great trees of California is in the
| Imperial palace, Berlin. Some of Mr.. Bier
stadts works owned in this country are:
| 'sValley of the Yosemite in the James
Lenox collection: Burning Ship" in that
of august Belmont; Laramie PeaR,'' in the
Academy Of Fine Arts, Buffalo, and a
|'.Mountain Lake. in the Corcoran Gallery,
Washington.
! Mr.. Bierstadt was the recipient of medals
| from Austria, Germany, Bavaria, and Bel
giun In 1867 he decorated by the
French Emperor with the Cross of the Legion
OF Honor: in 1869 and 1872 by the Gar of
Russia with two degrees Of the Order OF st.
Stanislaus, and in 1856 with the Imperial
Order OF the Medjidii by the sultan of Tur-
key.
At the Pennsylvania Academy Of Fine Arts
the Walter Lippi1cott prize of $500 was
awarded to Walter tdcEwen for his picture,
IAN Ancestor The Temple gold meda4
| went to Winslow Homer for his picture.
'.Northeaster." The picture is the property
| of George A. Hearn Of New. York. Tby
Mary Smith prize OF 800 was awarded 10
Eleanor Earle for her picture entitled Eye
| Light