Yosemite Valley Landscape signed bottom right measures 27" x 39" oil on canvas in an antique highly carved gilt frame. Born in Solingen Germany, Bierstadt became an American painter known for his large, lush and lavish sweeping landscapes of the American West. "In obtaining the subject matter for these works, Bierstadt joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion. Though not the first artist to record these sites, Bierstadt was the foremost painter of these scenes for the remainder of the 19th century." Albertbierstadt.org. Part of the Hudson river School, Romanticism and luminism because of his otherworldly depiction of Sunset light. Provenance: Beverly Hills Lifetime Collection