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.
   23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31  
 
 Prev Artist   Next Artist 
Asher Brown Durand Equestrian Portrait of Mademoiselle Croizette oil painting


Equestrian Portrait of Mademoiselle Croizette
1873(1873) Medium Oil on canvas cyf
Painting ID::  80590 		Asher Brown Durand
Equestrian Portrait of Mademoiselle Croizette
1873(1873) Medium Oil on canvas cyf
   
   
     
Asher Brown Durand Beacon Hills on the Hudson River oil painting


Beacon Hills on the Hudson River
oil on canvas painting by Asher Brown Durand, ca. 1852 Date ca. 1852 cyf
Painting ID::  81503 		Asher Brown Durand
Beacon Hills on the Hudson River
oil on canvas painting by Asher Brown Durand, ca. 1852 Date ca. 1852 cyf
   
   
     
Asher Brown Durand A Summer Afternoon oil painting


A Summer Afternoon
A Summer Afternoon, oil on canvas, 30.25 x 42.25 inches Date 1849(1849) cjr
Painting ID::  81563 		Asher Brown Durand
A Summer Afternoon
A Summer Afternoon, oil on canvas, 30.25 x 42.25 inches Date 1849(1849) cjr
   
   
     
Asher Brown Durand Lake Scene in the Mountains oil painting


Lake Scene in the Mountains
Lake Scene in the Mountains, oil on canvas, 60.96 cm (24 in.) by 91.44 cm (36 in.) Date 1874(1874) cjr
Painting ID::  83003 		Asher Brown Durand
Lake Scene in the Mountains
Lake Scene in the Mountains, oil on canvas, 60.96 cm (24 in.) by 91.44 cm (36 in.) Date 1874(1874) cjr
   
   
     
Asher Brown Durand Landscape oil painting


Landscape
Landscape, oil on canvas, 15 1/16 x 24 1/16 in. (38.2 x 61.1 cm) Date 1867(1867) cjr
Painting ID::  83707 		Asher Brown Durand
Landscape
Landscape, oil on canvas, 15 1/16 x 24 1/16 in. (38.2 x 61.1 cm) Date 1867(1867) cjr
   
   
     
         23  24  25  26  27  28  29  30  31   
Prev Artist       Next Artist     
     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.

Xiamen China Wholesale Stretched Oil Paintings Wholesale Picture Frames,Photo Frames, Moulding Beveled Mirrors

http://www.chinaoilpainting.com

China Oil Painting Studio Team