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Asher Brown Durand
June Shower
mk218
1854
Oil on canvas
84.1x122.2cm
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Asher Brown Durand
Clearing Up
mk218
1854
oil on canvas
81.9x122.5cm
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Asher Brown Durand
View of the Shandaken Mountains
mk218
1853
Oil on canvas
35.9x56.5cm
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Asher Brown Durand
Shandaken,Ulster County
mk218
New York
1854
Oil on canvas
53.3x42.5cm
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Asher Brown Durand
Landscape with Birches
mk218
c.1855
Oil on canvas
61.6x46cm
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Asher Brown Durand
Study of a Rock
mk218
undated
Oil on canvas
42.5x56cm
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Asher Brown Durand
Rocky Cliff
mk218
c.1860
Oil on canvas
41.9x60.9cm
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Asher Brown Durand
Study from Nature,Bronxville
mk218
1856
Oil on canvas
42.5x61cm
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Asher Brown Durand
Creek and rocks
mk218
1850
Oil on canvas
43x61cm
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Asher Brown Durand
Primeval Forest
mk218
c.1854
Sepia oil on canvas
147.3x121.9cm
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Asher Brown Durand
Study Woodland interior
mk218
c.1854
Oil on canvas
60.1x42.7cm
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Asher Brown Durand
Sketch in the Woods
mk218
c.1854
Oil on canvas
60.9x45.7cm
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Asher Brown Durand
A Brook in the Woods
mk218
c.1854
Oil on canvas
24x18in
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Asher Brown Durand
In the woods
mk218
1855
Oil on canvas
153.5x124.5cm
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Asher Brown Durand
Mount Chocorua,Hew Hampshire
mk218
1855
25.3x35.2cm
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Asher Brown Durand
White Mountain Scenery,Franconia Notch
mk218
1857
Oil on canvas
122.6x181.6cm
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Asher Brown Durand
The Catskills
mk218
1859
Oil on canvas
158.1x128.3cm
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Asher Brown Durand
A Sycamore Tree,Plaaterkill Clove
mk218
c.1858
Oil on canvas
61x44.5cm
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Asher Brown Durand
Sunday Morning
mk218
1860
Oil on canvas
71.4x107cm
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Asher Brown Durand
Kaaterskill Clove
mk218
1866
Oil on canvas
97.2x152.4cm
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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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