A painting bought for $10 at a thrift store near Philadelphia may be a unique masterpiece by Black painter William Henry ...

Albert Bierstadt was a German-American painter best known for his grandiose landscapes of the 19th-century American West ... and subsequently fell into favor with the Hudson River School painters in ...

He was particularly influenced by the works of 19th-century landscape painters such as Albert Bierstadt ... including the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, ...