It revisits Albert Bierstadt’s 1864 oil-on-canvas painting ... Bierstadt’s narrative of a peaceful breakfast in the Yosemite Valley. There are other differences between these works: Monkman ...

Albert Bierstadt was a German-American painter best known for his grandiose landscapes of the 19th-century American West. Born on January 7, 1830 in Solingen, Prussia, Bierstadt's family immigrated to ...