Great Trees, Mariposa Grove, California, Bierstadt Business Card

The Great Trees, Mariposa Grove, California (1876). Artist: Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902). The Great Trees, Mariposa Grove, California is a vintage American West fine art landscape painting featuring old growth, mature, giant sequoia redwood trees in a forest near the south entrance to Yosemite National Park. About the artist: Albert Bierstadt was a German-American painter best known for his lush, sweeping landscapes of the American West. In obtaining the subject matter for these works, Bierstadt joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion. He was part of the Hudson River School whose style involved carefully detailed paintings with romantic, almost glowing lighting, sometimes called luminism.