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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 England
Oil on canvas, 18 x 24 in
Date 1859(1859)
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Painting ID:: 79754
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Winter_Scene_in_New_England
Oil on canvas, 18 x 24 in
Date 1859(1859)
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Jones Inn, Winter
Oil on canvas, 18 x 24 in
Date 1853(1853)
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Painting ID:: 79755
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Jones_Inn,_Winter
Oil on canvas, 18 x 24 in
Date 1853(1853)
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Going to Church
Oil on canvas, 22 x 30 in
Date 1853(1853)
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Painting ID:: 79756
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Going_to_Church
Oil on canvas, 22 x 30 in
Date 1853(1853)
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Red School House, Winter
Oil on canvas, 26 x 36 in
Date 1858(1858)
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Painting ID:: 79757
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Red_School_House,_Winter
Oil on canvas, 26 x 36 in
Date 1858(1858)
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Winter in the Country, The Old Grist Mill
Oil on canvas, 26 x 36 in
Date 1862(1862)
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Painting ID:: 79761
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Winter_in_the_Country,_The_Old_Grist_Mill
Oil on canvas, 26 x 36 in
Date 1862(1862)
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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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