Yesterday was the first of the month, and I forgot to post the picture for July from the calendar that I made for 2023. Regular readers know that this year's calendar features photos that I took at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
For the month of July, we have a beautiful painting of Yosemite by the 19th century landscape painter, Albert Bierstadt.
Bierstadt (1830 - 1902) was born in Germany, but his family emigrated to the United States when he was one year old. He returned to Germany to study art, and after four years came back to the U.S. where he devoted himself to landscape painting. He took several trips to the American West, and his monumental paintings of the natural wonders there were extremely popular with people back East.
Today art critics are divided in their opinion of Bierstadt. Some consider his work theatrical and oversized. Others point out that his landscapes created support for the conservation movement and the establishment of the National Park system.
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