拍品專文
Albert Bierstadt likely painted the present work circa 1861, after his first trip to the American West in 1859. Possibly depicting the Nebraska territory, Sunset on the Prairies is illustrated in the exhibition catalogue Georgia O'Keeffe: Visions of the Sublime, accompanying the following passage: "Western space and light were dual interests of O'Keeffe as they had been for many American artists before her. In her autobiography she wrote, 'My first memory is of the brightness of light - light all around,' and on another occasion, 'the color of the dust was bright in the sun light.' Almost as if describing a scene by Albert Bierstadt, she recalled in Texas that 'for days we would see large herds of cattle with their clouds of dust being driven slowly across the plains toward the town.'" (J.S. Czestochowski, Georgia O'Keeffe: Visions of the Sublime, exhibition catalogue, Memphis, Tennessee, 2004, p. 15)