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Asher Brown Durand
Sketchbood
mk218
Graphite on paper in bound volume
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Asher Brown Durand
Portrait of Isaac Edrebi of Morocco
mk218
1840
Oil on artist-s board
45.1x36.8cm
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Asher Brown Durand
Self-Portrait
mk218
1840
Oil on composition board
54.8x45.7cm
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Asher Brown Durand
Head of a Roman
mk218
1841
Oil on canvas
62.2x50.2cm
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Asher Brown Durand
Twoil
mk218
1841
Grphite on paper in bound volume
28.6x44.1cm
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Asher Brown Durand
Sorrento
mk218
1841
21.9x28.9cm
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Asher Brown Durand
Crater of Vesuvius
mk218
1841
21.9x28.9cm
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Asher Brown Durand
Parish church,Stratford-upon-Avon,England
mk218
1841
Pencil heightened with white on paper
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Asher Brown Durand
Francis William Edonds
mk218
1841
21.6x14cm
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Asher Brown Durand
Classic Italy
mk218
c.1850
Oil on canvas
85.1x123.1cm
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Asher Brown Durand
Oberwesel on the Rhine
mk218
1843
Oil on canvas
66.7x92cm
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Asher Brown Durand
Study from Nature,Stratton Notch,Vermont
mk218
1853
Oil on canvas
45.7x60.3cm
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Asher Brown Durand
Self-Portrait
mk218
c.1835
Oil on canvas
76.5x64.1cm
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Asher Brown Durand
On Schroom river looking Northwest
mk218
1837
23.5x34cm
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Asher Brown Durand
Frontispiece with Trompe
mk218
1837
23.5x34cm
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Asher Brown Durand
Study form Nature,Hoboken,new jersey
mk218
27.9x36.2cm
Oil on canvas
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Asher Brown Durand
Notch House,White Mountains,New Hampshire
mk218
Graphite on paper
26x36.5cm
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Asher Brown Durand
Landscape Composition
mk218
c.1838
Oil on canvas
73.7x108cm
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Asher Brown Durand
Landscape,Sunset
mk218
1838
Oil on canvas
25x34in
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Asher Brown Durand
Alpine View,Near Meyringen
mk218
1842
Oil on canvas
81.3x114.3cm
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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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