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Asher Brown Durand Portrait of the Artist-s Wife and her sister mk218
1834
Oil on canvas
92.3x74.6cm
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Asher Brown Durand James Madison mk218
1833
Oil on canvas
61.6x51.4cm
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Asher Brown Durand Aarom Ogden mk218
1833
Oil on canvas
30x25in
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Asher Brown Durand Aaron Ogden mk218
1834
10.8x8.9cm
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Asher Brown Durand Andrew Jackson mk218
1835
Oil on canvas
30x25in
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Asher Brown Durand The Pedlar mk218
1836
Oil on canvas
61x87.6cm
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Asher Brown Durand Mary Louisa Adams mk218
1835
Oil on canvas
61x51cm
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Asher Brown Durand Luman Reed mk218
1835
Oil on canvas
76.2x63.5cm
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Asher Brown Durand Thomas Cole mk218
c.1837
Oil on canvas
77.8x65.1cm
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Asher Brown Durand Sunday Morning mk218
1839
Oil on canvas
64.1x92cm
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Asher Brown Durand The Morning of Life mk218
1840
Oil on canvas
126x213.7cm
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Asher Brown Durand The Evening of Life mk218
1840
Oil on canvas
125.4x211.8cm
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Asher Brown Durand Jonathan Sturges mk218
c.1840
Oil on canvas
77.5x63.5cm
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Asher Brown Durand John William Casilear mk218
c.1840
Oil on canvas
76.2x62.2cm
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Asher Brown Durand Dance on the battery in the Presence of Peter Stuyvesant mk218
1838
Oil on canvas
81.3x118.1cm
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Asher Brown Durand Dance of the Haymakers mk218
1851
Oil on canvas
35x54in
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Asher Brown Durand The Study,Windosor Park,England mk218
1840
Pencil on paper
36.5x25.7cm
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Asher Brown Durand The Solitary oak mk218
1844
Oil on canvas
36x48in
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Asher Brown Durand Castle of Chillon mk218/
1840
Graphite on paper in bound volume
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Asher Brown Durand Staubbach mk218
1840
Graphite on paper in bound volume
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Asher Brown Durand
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1796-1886
Asher Brown Durand Galleries
His interest shifted from engraving to oil painting around 1830 with the encouragement of his patron, Luman Reed. In 1837, he accompanied his friend Thomas Cole on a sketching expedition to Schroon Lake in the Adirondacks and soon after he began to concentrate on landscape painting. He spent summers sketching in the Catskills, Adirondacks, and the White Mountains of New Hampshire, making hundreds of drawings and oil sketches that were later incorporated into finished academy pieces which helped to define the Hudson River School.
Durand is particularly remembered for his detailed portrayals of trees, rocks, and foliage. He was an advocate for drawing directly from nature with as much realism as possible. Durand wrote, "Let [the artist] scrupulously accept whatever [nature] presents him until he shall, in a degree, have become intimate with her infinity...never let him profane her sacredness by a willful departure from truth."
Like other Hudson River School artists, Durand also believed that nature was an ineffable manifestation of God. He expressed this sentiment and his general views on art in his "Letters on Landscape Painting" in The Crayon, a mid-19th century New York art periodical. Wrote Durand, "[T]he true province of Landscape Art is the representation of the work of God in the visible creation..."
Durand is noted for his 1849 painting Kindred Spirits which shows fellow Hudson River School artist Thomas Cole and poet William Cullen Bryant in a Catskills landscape. This was painted as a tribute to Cole upon his death in 1848. The painting, donated by Bryant's daughter Julia to the New York Public Library in 1904, was sold by the library through Sotheby's at an auction in May 2005 to Alice Walton for a purported $35 million. The sale was conducted as a sealed, first bid auction, so the actual sales price is not known. At $35 million, however, it would be a record price paid for an American painting at the time.
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