Art by Bierstadt

The Lyme Chronicles™ project is honored to feature the lavish landscape art of the German-American painter Albert Bierstadt.

“Bierstadt was one of the first painters to capture the grandeur of the American West. His family emigrated from Germany in 1832 and settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He traveled to Wyoming, California, and Oregon, and turned his New York studio into a museum where people could see his paintings amid a vast collection of animal skins and Native American artifacts. Bierstadt’s Great Pictures show sweeping vistas of Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada.”¹

Bierstadt’s art conveys the might of the natural environment and reminds us that, in the midst of Nature’s awesome display of power, the smallest and the greatest must find equilibrium. The paintings invite us to dive into the luscious landscape and to find our place in it.

The Lyme Chronicles™ team selected Bierstadt’s work to illustrate the journey that those cruising the “Lyme world” must follow: a journey into a vast, unexplored landscape dominated by acute corners but that, as one delves into it, offers endless opportunities to discover oneself and to restore equilibrium — within us, with others, and with nature.