When I was a child my mother would go to the National Gallery of Art at least once a week, always on a weekday when it wasn’t crowded. Some of my earliest memories are wandering through its galleries, and particularly the small octagonal room where the four panels of Cole’s “The Voyage of Life” are hung. Today, I might favor Bierstadt over Cole, but those four paintings have retained a significant place in my imagination as the stages of my own life have passed.
great post, thanks for sharing that. :)
I like Bierstadt too. The Birmingham Museum of Art has a lovely Bierstadt “Looking Down Yosemite Valley”. Birmingham has a wonderful art museum, well worth my drive from Atlanta. The quality of art is impressive. Much better that than Atlanta’s art museum, which has too much modern art for my taste.
https://artsbma.org/january-2014-looking-down-yosemite-valley-california/1991-879_p01/