Melting Bierstadt

Check out this post from the Brooklyn Museum of Art…in which our painting of a waterfall inspires a charred, warped, tumbling-to-the-floor sculpture of a painting of a waterfall. Fascinating.

Valerie Hegarty’s piece is now on view as part of the Brooklyn Museum’s new contemporary art exhibition. (See more of Hegarty’s work. Warning: Conservators, please avert your eyes!)

Our Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite will be back on view in February, 2009 as part of the Highlights of the American Collection exhibition. Meanwhile, you can learn more about it on ArtNC.

This entry was written by Chad, posted on November 7, 2008 at 6:03 am, filed under Collection and tagged . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

    6 Comments

    1. Chad
      Posted April 23, 2009 at 7:29 am | Permalink

      The folks over at Brooklyn posted a follow up to their story on the Valerie Hegarty piece: complete with a conservator! on video!

    2. Shelley Bernstein
      Posted May 8, 2009 at 5:18 pm | Permalink

      Hi Chad,

      We just got Valerie Hegarty speaking on camera for a follow-up video we are working on. It would be great if we could cut to your Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite which she talks about in the footage (including naming your museum -yay!). Let me know if you’d be down with that?

    3. Chad
      Posted May 11, 2009 at 11:24 am | Permalink

      Shelley–Certainly. That’s very cool. I’ll email you with a high-res image. Can’t wait to see the video. Thanks–

    4. Shelley Bernstein
      Posted May 13, 2009 at 11:46 am | Permalink

      Hi Chad,

      Thanks for the image! The video is now live on YouTube!

    5. Valerie Hegarty
      Posted May 14, 2009 at 11:27 am | Permalink

      Hi Chad!
      Thanks for being excited about the imagined demise of Bridal Veil Falls. I hope to visit the original someday at your museum! Valerie

    6. Kelly
      Posted August 7, 2009 at 9:32 pm | Permalink

      Check out the massive Bierstadt in St. Johnsbury, Vermont at the Athenium Library downtown.

      Insane!

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    1. By Brooklyn Museum: Community: bloggers@brooklynmuseum » An Adventurous Painting on May 14, 2009 at 9:07 am

      [...] its inspiration from another work, Bridal Veil Falls owned by the North Carolina Museum of Art. One quick comment on the NCMA blog and we had a high resolution file to incorporate into our little video, [...]

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