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Albert Bierstadt American, 1830-1902 Fishing and Hunting Camp, Loring, Alaska Oil on paper laid down to board 13 1/4 x 18 7/8 inches. Albert Bierstadt was on board the side-wheel steamer Ancon in August, 1889 when it ran aground in Loring Bay. The passengers were put on shore at a fishing camp until rescued. On September 18, 1889, Bierstadt wrote from Vancouver, British Columbia to his wife, Rosalie "describing the wreck of the Ancon as a 'narrow escape' and [indicated] that he and the other passengers spent five days living in Indian huts and salmon canneries. 'I was busy all the time and have 60 studies in color and two books full of drawings of Alaska.' " [Nancy Anderson and Linda Ferber, Albert Bierstadt: Art and Enterprise, exhi. cat., Brooklyn, 1991] The view depicted in the present work, which may be one of those color studies, closely resembles contemporary photographs of the saltery in Loring. C