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Asher Brown Durand The Indian-s Vespers mk218
1847
Oil on canvas
117.2x158.1cm
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Asher Brown Durand The Stranded Ship mk218
1844
Oil on canvas
94x129.5cm
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Asher Brown Durand An Old Man-s Reminiscences mk218
1845
Oil on canvas
100.6x150.5cm
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Asher Brown Durand The Beeches mk218
1845
Oil on canvas
153.4x122.2cm
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Asher Brown Durand Landscape with Beech Tree mk218
c.1845
Oil on canvas
38.7x51.4cm
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Asher Brown Durand Hudson River Looking Toward the Catskill mk218
1847
Oil on canvas
46x52in
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Asher Brown Durand Landscape,Composition,Forenoon mk218
1847
Oil on canvas
153.4x122.2cm
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Asher Brown Durand Landscape Composition,Afternoon,in the woods mk218
1847
Oil on canvas
153.78x121.3cm
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Asher Brown Durand Trees by the Brookside,Kingston mk218
New York
c.1846
Oil on canvas
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Asher Brown Durand Study for Landscape Composition mk218
c.1848
25.6x35.9cm
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Asher Brown Durand Landscape composition in the catskills mk218
1848
Oil on cnavas
76.2x107.3cm
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Asher Brown Durand Dover Plains,Dutchess County mk218
New York
1848
Oil on canvas
107.9x153.7cm
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Asher Brown Durand Dover Plains mk218
c.1847-48
Pencil on paper
10x14in
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Asher Brown Durand Pitch Pines,North Mountain Catskills mk218
1848
Graphite on gray-green paper
25.1x35.6cm
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Asher Brown Durand Mountain Stream mk218
c.1848
Oil on canvas
40x60in
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Asher Brown Durand Kindred Spirits mk218
1849
Oil on canvas
111.7x91.4cm
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Asher Brown Durand Landscape mk218
1850
Oil on canvas
100.3x154.9cm
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Asher Brown Durand Early Morning at Cold Spring mk218
1850
Oil on canvas
149.9x120cm
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Asher Brown Durand Progress mk218
1853
Oil on canvas
121.9x182.8cm
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Asher Brown Durand The First Harvest in the Wilderness mk218
1855
Oil on canvas
80.3x122cm
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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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