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Original works by Albert Bierstadt available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database NEW!
Mountain Brook
Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio
The Oregon Trail, 1869
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
The Matterhorn, ca.1867
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
10 paintings online
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana NEW!
Albert Bierstadt at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
14 works by Albert Bierstadt online
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota 
Ruins of Paestum, 1858
The Merced River in Yosemite, 1868
Landscape
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Watercolor collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma
Emigrants Crossing the Plains, 1867
Albert Bierstadt at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Lake Lucerne, 1858
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite, ca.1871-73
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Yosemite Valley, Glacier Point Trail
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Sketchbook from the artist and a couple of oil paintings
Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, Missouri
High Sierra, ca.1880
Amon Carter Museum, Texas
Sunrise, Yosemite Valley
Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive
Yosemite Winter Scene
Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama NEW!
Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California
Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin
Sioux Village near Fort Laramie, 1859
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable) NEW!
Cloud Study, Moonlight, ca.1860
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York City
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Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Sister Wendy on Yosemite Valley, 1866
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Mount Vesuvius at Midnight
Fir Trees and Storm Clouds
Yosemite Valley
Colby College Museum of Art, Maine NEW!
Chimney Rock, 1860
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Mount Corcoran
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
The Last of the Buffalo
Crocker Art Museum, California
In the Yosemite Valley, 1871-72
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire NEW!
3 works online
Dayton Art Institute, Ohio
Scene In Yosemite Valley
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma
Yosemite Valley
Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Mountain Scene and River
Sierra Navada Morning
Haggin Museum, California
12 paintings online
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts NEW!
Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, New York
Yosemite Valley, ca.1865
Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Swiss Mountain Scene
Albert Bierstadt in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami, Florida
Yosemite Valley, California, ca.1863
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
The Sierras Near Lake Tahoe, California
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Massachusetts
Hetch Hetchy Canyon, 1875
Museum of Nebraska Art at the University of Nebraska
National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
3 paintings
New Bedford Whaling Museum, Massachusetts
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut
Seal
New-York Historical Society
3 paintings online
Portland Art Museum, Oregon
Mount Hood, 1869
Portland Museum of Art, Maine NEW!
Rockwell Museum of Western Art, Corning, New York
Mount Whitney
San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
Passing Storm over the Sierra Nevadas, 1870
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California
Mirror Lake, Yosemite Valley, 1864
Seattle Art Museum
Sheldon Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
River Landscape
Albert Bierstadt at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Southern Alleghenies Museum, Pennsylvania
Stark Museum of Art, Texas
2 works online
The Newark Museum, New Jersey NEW!
Western Landscape, 1869
The Parthenon, Tennessee
Mount Tamalpais
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, California
Cho-looke, The Yosemite Fall
Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas
Mount Brewer from King's Canyon, California, 1862
U.S. Capitol Art Collection
Discovery of the Hudson River
Entrance into Monterey
Virtual Museum of Canada
Among the Sierra Nevada, California, 1868
Virtual Museum of Canada
Alaskan Coast Range, ca.1889
Wake Forest University Fine Arts Gallery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Niagara
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
2 works online
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
Yosemite Falls, ca.1865-70
Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Albert Bierstadt in the Art Renewal Center
Albert Bierstadt in the Artchive
Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: The Shore of the Turquoise Sea
Albert Bierstadt at CGFA
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German) 
California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
Albert Bierstadt at The Athenaeum
283 works online by Bierstadt
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Other Web Sites:
Mount Shasta Companion
A few paintings by Bierstadt (not all have thumbnails)
Outdoor Painting NEW!
The Western hero: Visions and Revisions
University of Virginia Digital Collections
Storm in the Rocky Mountains, 1866
White Mountain Art and Artists
Why We Think Nature is Beautiful
Illustrated article by Eugene C. Hargrove
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Albert Bierstadt
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Resource Library Magazine
Bernese Alps, 1859
Resource Library Magazine
Resource Library Magazine
Geysers in Yellowstone, ca.1881
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