Asher Brown Durand
(1796 - 1886 ) |
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Detailed portrayals of trees, rocks, and foliage Art Work
| Name: |
Asher Brown Durand |
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Male |
| Place of Birth: |
Maplewood, New Jersey, USA |
| Nationality: |
American |
| Birth: |
1796 |
| Death: |
1886 |
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Quick Facts
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Detailed portrayals of trees, rocks, and foliage |
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Hudson River School |
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Painter
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Biography
Asher Brown Durand was an engraver who shifted to oil painting around 1830 with the encouragement of his patron, Luman Reed. In 1837, he went with his friend Thomas Cole on a sketching expedition to Schroon Lake in the Adirondacks and soon after he began to focus 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 developed into finished academy pieces which helped to define the Hudson River School.
Durand is particularly remembered for his meticulous 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."
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