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Asher Brown Durand
Ein Bach im Wald
mk181
1865
Ol auf Leinwand
101.6x81.9cm
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Asher Brown Durand
Naivete
mk212
Oil on canvas
1849
44x38in
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Asher Brown Durand
Represent
mk212
1856
Oil on canvas
100x150.8cm
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Asher Brown Durand
Ex-President
mk218
General Research Division
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Asher Brown Durand
Study from Nature rocks and trees in the Catskills
mk218
c.1856
Oil on canvas
54.6x43.2cm
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Asher Brown Durand
Study of Trees and Rocks,kaaterskill Clove
mk218
New York
1850
Graphite on gray-green paper
35.2x25.3cm
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Asher Brown Durand
Study of fallen tree trunks,Bolton,Lake George
mk218
New York
1863
31.1x47cm
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Asher Brown Durand
Strawberrying
mk218
1854
Oil on canvas
34x51in
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Asher Brown Durand
Study from Nature Trees,Newburgh,
mk218
New York
1849
Oil on canvas
56.2x45.7cm
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Asher Brown Durand
William Cullen Bryant
mk218
c.1854
Oil on canvas
76.5x63.8c,
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Asher Brown Durand
The Colonmade in Elysian Fields
mk218
Caxton Press 1895
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Asher Brown Durand
Delaration of Independence
mk218
1823
Line engraving,sixth sate
64x95.5cm
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Asher Brown Durand
Rachel Post Durand
mk218
c.1822
Oil on wood panel
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Asher Brown Durand
Cyrus Durand
mk218
c.1825
Oil on canvas
76.2x63.5cm
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Asher Brown Durand
Musidora
mk218
1825
37.1x27cm
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Asher Brown Durand
Delaware Water Gap
mk218
1830
11.1x15.2cm
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Asher Brown Durand
Catskill Mountains
mk218
c.1830
Oil on canvas
34.9x45.7cm
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Asher Brown Durand
The Durand Children
mk218
1832
Oil on canvas
92.7x73.7cm
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Asher Brown Durand
Boonton Falls,New Jersey
mk218
c.1833
Oil on canvas
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Asher Brown Durand
Self-Portrait
mk218
1830-33
25.7x19.7cm
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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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