Passing Storm over the Sierra Nevadas by Albert Bierstadt, 1870 Finish:Art print and growing cities were shaping

and growing cities were shaping the nation’s future

Executed in oil on paper mounted on paperboard

Painted by the German-born

This map provides an invaluable historical perspective

Many of Chinatown's street names and landmarks are already visible on this map

Passing Storm over the Sierra Nevadas by Albert Bierstadt, 1870 Finish:Art print and growing cities were shapingPassing Storm over the Sierra Nevadas by Albert Bierstadt (1870) is a tourdeforce of nineteenthcentury American landscape painting, capturing the instant a storm loosens its grip on a high mountain lake in Californias Sierra Nevada. Bierstadt, celebrated for transporting viewers into the dramatic wilderness of the American West, heightens the sublime with towering peaks, volatile skies, and a break of radiant light that pours across rock and water.