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Asher Brown Durand
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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Asher Brown Durand The Indian-s Vespers oil painting

Painting ID::  51399

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 Asher Brown Durand
The Indian-s Vespers
mk218 1847 Oil on canvas 117.2x158.1cm
   
   
     

 

 
Asher Brown Durand The Stranded Ship oil painting

Painting ID::  51400

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 Asher Brown Durand
The Stranded Ship
mk218 1844 Oil on canvas 94x129.5cm
   
   
     

 

 
Asher Brown Durand An Old Man-s Reminiscences oil painting

Painting ID::  51401

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 Asher Brown Durand
An Old Man-s Reminiscences
mk218 1845 Oil on canvas 100.6x150.5cm
   
   
     

 

 
Asher Brown Durand The Beeches oil painting

Painting ID::  51402

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 Asher Brown Durand
The Beeches
mk218 1845 Oil on canvas 153.4x122.2cm
   
   
     

 

 
Asher Brown Durand Landscape with Beech Tree oil painting

Painting ID::  51403

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 Asher Brown Durand
Landscape with Beech Tree
mk218 c.1845 Oil on canvas 38.7x51.4cm
   
   
     

 

 
Asher Brown Durand Hudson River Looking Toward the Catskill oil painting

Painting ID::  51404

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 Asher Brown Durand
Hudson River Looking Toward the Catskill
mk218 1847 Oil on canvas 46x52in
   
   
     

 

 
Asher Brown Durand Landscape,Composition,Forenoon oil painting

Painting ID::  51405

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 Asher Brown Durand
Landscape,Composition,Forenoon
mk218 1847 Oil on canvas 153.4x122.2cm
   
   
     

 

 
Asher Brown Durand Landscape Composition,Afternoon,in the woods oil painting

Painting ID::  51406

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 Asher Brown Durand
Landscape Composition,Afternoon,in the woods
mk218 1847 Oil on canvas 153.78x121.3cm
   
   
     

 

 
Asher Brown Durand Trees by the Brookside,Kingston oil painting

Painting ID::  51407

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 Asher Brown Durand
Trees by the Brookside,Kingston
mk218 New York c.1846 Oil on canvas
   
   
     

 

 
Asher Brown Durand Study for Landscape Composition oil painting

Painting ID::  51408

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 Asher Brown Durand
Study for Landscape Composition
mk218 c.1848 25.6x35.9cm
   
   
     

 

 
Asher Brown Durand Landscape composition in the catskills oil painting

Painting ID::  51409

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 Asher Brown Durand
Landscape composition in the catskills
mk218 1848 Oil on cnavas 76.2x107.3cm
   
   
     

 

 
Asher Brown Durand Dover Plains,Dutchess County oil painting

Painting ID::  51410

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 Asher Brown Durand
Dover Plains,Dutchess County
mk218 New York 1848 Oil on canvas 107.9x153.7cm
   
   
     

 

 
Asher Brown Durand Dover Plains oil painting

Painting ID::  51411

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 Asher Brown Durand
Dover Plains
mk218 c.1847-48 Pencil on paper 10x14in
   
   
     

 

 
Asher Brown Durand Pitch Pines,North Mountain Catskills oil painting

Painting ID::  51412

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 Asher Brown Durand
Pitch Pines,North Mountain Catskills
mk218 1848 Graphite on gray-green paper 25.1x35.6cm
   
   
     

 

 
Asher Brown Durand Mountain Stream oil painting

Painting ID::  51413

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 Asher Brown Durand
Mountain Stream
mk218 c.1848 Oil on canvas 40x60in
   
   
     

 

 
Asher Brown Durand Kindred Spirits oil painting

Painting ID::  51414

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 Asher Brown Durand
Kindred Spirits
mk218 1849 Oil on canvas 111.7x91.4cm
   
   
     

 

 
Asher Brown Durand Landscape oil painting

Painting ID::  51416

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 Asher Brown Durand
Landscape
mk218 1850 Oil on canvas 100.3x154.9cm
   
   
     

 

 
Asher Brown Durand Early Morning at Cold Spring oil painting

Painting ID::  51417

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 Asher Brown Durand
Early Morning at Cold Spring
mk218 1850 Oil on canvas 149.9x120cm
   
   
     

 

 
Asher Brown Durand Progress oil painting

Painting ID::  51418

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 Asher Brown Durand
Progress
mk218 1853 Oil on canvas 121.9x182.8cm
   
   
     

 

 
Asher Brown Durand The First Harvest in the Wilderness oil painting

Painting ID::  51419

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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
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.