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Asher Brown Durand
A Pastoral Scene
1858
21 7/8 x 32 3/8 in/(55.5 x 82.3 cm)
NGA, Washington
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Asher Brown Durand
Pastoral Landscape
1861
39 x 60 1/16 in/(99 x 152.5 cm)
NGA, Washington
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Asher Brown Durand
The Beeches
1845
Musee des Beaux Arts, Carcassonne
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Asher Brown Durand
Kindred Spirits
1849
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Asher Brown Durand
Study from Rocks and Trees
1853
The Warner Collection
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Asher Brown Durand
White Mountain Scenery
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Asher Brown Durand
Day of Rest
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Asher Brown Durand
Genesee Valley Landscape
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Asher Brown Durand
Summer Afternoon
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Asher Brown Durand
White Mountain Scenery
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Asher Brown Durand
Les hetres
mk75
1845
Huile sur toile
153.4x122.2cm
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Asher Brown Durand
Kindred Spirits
mk77
1849
Oil on canvs
44x36in
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Asher Brown Durand
Dover Plain,Dutchess County
mk136
New York
Oil on canvas
1848
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Asher Brown Durand
The First Harvest in the Wilderness
mk140
1855
Oil on cnavas
80.3x122cm
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Asher Brown Durand
The Croyon
mk146
Oil on canvas
Jan. 17 1855
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Asher Brown Durand
Dance on the Battery in the Presence of Peter Stuyvesant
mk151
1838
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Asher Brown Durand
Verwandte Seelen
mk181
1849
New York
The New York Public Library
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Asher Brown Durand
Fortschritt
mk181
1853
Tuscaloosa
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Asher Brown Durand
Verwandte Seele
mk181
1849
New York
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Asher Brown Durand
Fruher Morgen bei Cold Spring
mk181
1850
Montclair
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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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