Asher B. Durand (1796–1886)
Landscape, 1855
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Oil on canvas
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25 x 36 inches
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Signed and dated lower right: AB Durand 1855
Provenance
- Private collection
- Sale, Christie’s, Manson, and Woods, New York, New York, December 13, 1985
- Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts, acquired from above
- Private collection, Boston, Massachusetts, February 28, 1986, acquired from above
- M. Knoedler & Company, New York, New York
- Private collection, New York
- Sale, Freeman’s, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 2, 2012, lot 86, from above
- Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, New York, acquired from above
- Driscoll Babcock Galleries, New York, New York, acquired from above, 2013
- Burrichter/Kierlin Collection, Winona, Minnesota, 2013
- Minnesota Marine Art Museum, Winona, Minnesota, on long-term loan from above
- Collection of J. Jeffrey and Ann Marie Fox
Exhibited
Exhibitions of American Landscape Paintings Dating from 1750, M. Knoedler and Company, New York, May 17–June 1, 1943, no. 12
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, Connecticut
Literature
Exhibitions of American Landscape Paintings Dating from 1750 (New York: M. Knoedler and Company, 1943), no. 12.
David B. Lawall, Asher B. Durand: A Documentary Catalogue of the Narrative and Landscape Paintings (New York: Garland Publishers, 1978), 112, no. 198, fig. 104.
Barbara Novak, “Mapping Durand,” The New York Journal of American History (New-York Historical Society) 66, no. 4 (2007): 12–17.
“Durand Dividends,” American Fine Art Magazine (January/February 2013): 112.
Annette Blaugrund, ed., Charting New Waters: Redefining Marin Painting, Masterworks from the Burrichter/Kierlin Collection (Winona: Minnesota Marine Art Museum, 2013), 10, 26, fig. 5, 107.
Note
While the entwined trees to the left of the scene and mountain vista in the distance both come from earlier studies of the Shandaken Mountains in the southern Catskills, to which Durand made at least two sketching and trout-fishing trips in the early 1850s, the body of water itself is reminiscent of Lake George and the scene is likely a composite based on sketches from several locations.
Related Work
View of the Shandaken Mountains, New York, 1853, oil on linen, 16 x 24 inches; New-York Historical Society, New York
Shandaken Range, Kingston, New York, ca. 1854, oil on canvas, 21 1/2 x 17 inches; New-York Historical Society, New York
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