Bierstadt DVD contains 175+ amazing reproductions of landscapes, seascapes, wildlife, native americans and more.

Albert Bierstadt was a German-American painter of the Hudson River School style. He is best known for his large landscapes of the American West. During the Westward Expansion, Bierstadt made several journeys, returning with sketches that would result in numerous finished paintings. He became the foremost painter of these scenes for the remainder of the 19th century.
The Hudson River School style involved carefully detailed paintings with romantic, almost glowing lighting, sometimes called luminism. Bierstadt paintings sold for large sums, but he was not held in high esteem by art critics of his day. His use of uncommonly large canvases was a source of envy by his contemporaries when they were displayed together. The romanticism evident in his choices of subject and in his use of light complemented the landscape. His paintings emphasized atmospheric elements like fog, clouds and mist to accentuate his work. Bierstadt sometimes changed details of the landscape to inspire awe. The colors he used were not always true to life, but he painted what he believed was the way things should be.

Image screen sizes average 2200 x 1800, 1600 x 1200 at 300 dpi.

Cole DVD contains 100+ amazing reproductions of landscapes, religious, mythological and historic scenes.

Thomas Cole was an English-born American painter and founder of the Hudson River School style. After having received some slight instruction in art from an itinerant portrait-painter, Cole left home at the age of twentyone, and finally settled in New York City, where he soon established a high reputation as an artist. His views of the Catskills, the White Mountains, and other landscapes met with a ready sale. He visited Europe in 1829, and remained there three years. After his return to New York he spent the rest of his life sketching from nature in the Catskills, Adirondacks, White Mountains, and the coast of Maine. Cole believed all his paintings are romantic in vein, as he felt it was his duty to depict nature, especially American nature, as the "visible hand of God." The Hudson River School style involved carefully detailed paintings with romantic, almost glowing lighting, sometimes called luminism.

Image screen sizes average 2200 x 1800, 1280 x 1024 at 300 dpi.

110+ Heade Paintings of Hummingbirds, Orchids, Landscapes & more.

Martin Johnson Heade was a prolific American painter known for his salt marsh landscapes, seascapes, portraits of tropical birds, and still lifes. His painting style and subject matter, while derived from the romanticism of the time, is regarded by art historians as a significant departure from that of his peers. Heade was born in Lumberville, Pennsylvania, a small hamlet along the Delaware River in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and spent his childhood there. His family owned the building in which is now The Lumberville Store and Post Office, the village's sole general store. Historians believe he received his first art training from the folk artist Edward Hicks, who lived in the area. By 1839 Heade had painted his first portraits and two years later had exhibited his first work at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philaldephia. Through the mid-1850s, Heade made his living as a travelling portrait painter.

Image screen sizes average 1600 x 1200 at 300 dpi.

130+ Moran Reproductions of Yosemite and Yellowstone Nat'l Parks, Grand Canyon, The Tetons and more.

Thomas Moran was an artist of the Hudson River School. Thomas Moran's vision of the Western landscape was critical to the creation of Yellowstone National Park. His pencil and watercolor field sketches and paintings captured the grandeur and documented the extraordinary terrain and natural features of the Yellowstone region. Moran's artwork was presented to members of Congress by park proponents. These powerful images of Yellowstone fired the imagination and helped inspire Congress to establish the National Park System in 1916. Mount Moran in the Grand Teton National Park is named for Moran.

Image screen sizes average 1920 x 1200, 1650 x 1280, 1280 x 1024 at 300 dpi.