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George Henry Durrie
American Painter, 1820-1863,American painter. Durrie and his older brother John (1818-98) studied sporadically from 1839 to 1841 with the portrait painter Nathaniel Jocelyn. From 1840 to 1842 he was an itinerant painter in Connecticut and New Jersey, finally settling permanently in New Haven. He produced c. 300 paintings, of which the earliest were portraits (e.g. Self-portrait, 1839; Shelburne, VT, Mus.); by the early 1850s he had begun to paint the rural genre scenes and winter landscapes of New England that are considered his finest achievement. His landscapes, for example A Christmas Party (1852; Tulsa, OK, Gilcrease Inst. Amer. Hist. & A.), are characterized by the use of pale though cheerful colours and by the repeated use of certain motifs: an isolated farmhouse, a road placed diagonally leading the eye into the composition, and a hill (usually the West or East Rocks, New Haven) in the distance. By the late 1850s Durrie's reputation had started to grow, and he was exhibiting at prestigious institutions, such as the National Academy of Design. In 1861 the firm of Currier & Ives helped popularize his work by publishing prints of two of his winter landscapes,
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Winter Scene in New Haven,Connecticut
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Oil on canvas
About 1858
Painting ID:: 38351
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Winter_Scene_in_New_Haven,Connecticut
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Oil on canvas
About 1858
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Summer Landscape Near New Haven
ca. 1849(1849)
Oil on canvas
90 x 125.4 cm (35.43 x 49.37 in)
Painting ID:: 71295
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Summer_Landscape_Near_New_Haven
ca. 1849(1849)
Oil on canvas
90 x 125.4 cm (35.43 x 49.37 in)
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Material and Dimensions
Material and Dimensions: Oil on canvas, 35 x 51 in
1852(1852)
Painting ID:: 72123
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Material_and_Dimensions
Material and Dimensions: Oil on canvas, 35 x 51 in
1852(1852)
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Material and Dimensions
Oil on canvas, 35 x 51 in
Date 1852(1852)
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Painting ID:: 73730
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Material_and_Dimensions
Oil on canvas, 35 x 51 in
Date 1852(1852)
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The Half-Way House
Oil on canvas, 36 x 54 in
Date 1861(1861)
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Painting ID:: 79753
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The_Half-Way_House
Oil on canvas, 36 x 54 in
Date 1861(1861)
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George_Henry_Durrie
American Painter, 1820-1863,American painter. Durrie and his older brother John (1818-98) studied sporadically from 1839 to 1841 with the portrait painter Nathaniel Jocelyn. From 1840 to 1842 he was an itinerant painter in Connecticut and New Jersey, finally settling permanently in New Haven. He produced c. 300 paintings, of which the earliest were portraits (e.g. Self-portrait, 1839; Shelburne, VT, Mus.); by the early 1850s he had begun to paint the rural genre scenes and winter landscapes of New England that are considered his finest achievement. His landscapes, for example A Christmas Party (1852; Tulsa, OK, Gilcrease Inst. Amer. Hist. & A.), are characterized by the use of pale though cheerful colours and by the repeated use of certain motifs: an isolated farmhouse, a road placed diagonally leading the eye into the composition, and a hill (usually the West or East Rocks, New Haven) in the distance. By the late 1850s Durrie's reputation had started to grow, and he was exhibiting at prestigious institutions, such as the National Academy of Design. In 1861 the firm of Currier & Ives helped popularize his work by publishing prints of two of his winter landscapes,
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