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 Edge of the Forest oil


The Edge of the Forest
Painting ID::  51442 		The Edge of the Forest
mk218 1871 Oil on canvas 199.4x162.5cm
mk218 1871 Oil_on_canvas 199.4x162.5cm
   
   
     
Asher Brown Durand Study of Rocks with Trees.Hague,Lake George oil


Study of Rocks with Trees.Hague,Lake George
Painting ID::  51443 		Study of Rocks with Trees.Hague,Lake George
mk218 New York 1862 30.8x47.3cm
mk218 New_York 1862 30.8x47.3cm
   
   
     
Asher Brown Durand Island with small trees,Lake George oil


Island with small trees,Lake George
Painting ID::  51444 		Island with small trees,Lake George
mk218 c.1862 31x47.2cm
mk218 c.1862 31x47.2cm
   
   
     
Asher Brown Durand Black Mountain,From the harbor island,Lake George oil


Black Mountain,From the harbor island,Lake George
Painting ID::  51445 		Black Mountain,From the harbor island,Lake George
mk218 c.1875 Oil on canvas 40.6x61cm
mk218 c.1875 Oil_on_canvas 40.6x61cm
   
   
     
Asher Brown Durand Springfield Township oil


Springfield Township
Painting ID::  62534 		Springfield Township
d. 1886, Maplewood) Kindred Spirits 1849 Oil on canvas, 117 x 92 cm Public Library, New York Asher B Durand, who was a leading figure in the 'Hudson River School' of American landscapists, painted Kindred Spirits in memory of his fellow painter Thomas Cole (1801-1848). He painted Cole and the poet William Cullen Bryant standing on a rock over a ravine in the Catskills sharing a moment of communion with the visible world and its creator. Author: DURAND, Asher Brown Title: Kindred Spirits Form: painting , 1801-1850 , American , landscape
   
   
     
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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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