Landscape
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1855
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 24 x 16 3/4 in. ( 61 x 42.5 cm )
Frame: 33 1/2 x 26 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. (85.1 x 67.3 x 8.9 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of Nora Durand Woodman
Object Number:
1932.26
Gallery Label:
Known collectively as Durand's "Studies from Nature," these vivid landscape paintings were painted over a span of more than three decades and are still celebrated as a special body of works within the artist's large and varied oeuvre. Smaller in scale and less formal than studio compositions, the studies record the particulars of a given site close up with the aim of conveying the sensation of direct experience. These carefully observed details also convey the belief that contemplation of unspoiled nature offered opportunities for spiritual meditation and renewal; what Durand called "lessons of high and holy meaning."
Bibliography:
Lawall, David B., Asher Brown Durand: His Art and Art Theory in Relation to his Times, Submitted to Princeton University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, March 1966, p. 256.
Lawall, David B., Asher B. Durand: A Documentary Catalogue of the Narrative and Landscape Paintings, New York & London, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1978, p. 176.
Koke, Richard J., American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society, Vol. I, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1982, p. 349.
Novak, Barbara, Dreams and Shadows Thomas H. Hotchkiss in Nineteenth-Century Italy, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1992, pp. 18-9, 30, 135.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1855
eMuseum Object ID:
17046
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Captured Flags from Yorktown Laid at the Feet of Congress
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1922
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 28 x 46 in. ( 71.1 x 116.8 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of John Ward Dunsmore
Object Number:
1942.301
Gallery Label:
A similar version of this study is owned by the Sons of Revolution, Fraunces tavern, New York City.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1922
eMuseum Object ID:
17038
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
John McKesson (1772-1829)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1805
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 36 x 28 in. ( 91.4 x 71.1 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Irving McKesson
Object Number:
1959.42
Gallery Label:
The subject, son of William McKesson, was born in Adams County, Pennsylvania. He was probably named after his uncle, John (1734-96), a prominent lawyer in New York and clerk of the Provincial Congress (1775-77). After graduating from Dickinson College in 1792, the subject joined his uncle in New York and was admitted as counsellor in the court of common pleas in 1798. He was one of the incorporators of The New-York Historical Society in 1809.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1805
eMuseum Object ID:
17033
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Catskill Winter Landscape
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1858
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 11 x 7 3/4 in. ( 27.9 x 19.7 cm )
Frame: 15 1/2 x 12 5/8 x 2 1/2 in. (39.4 x 32.1 x 6.4 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of the Estate of Nora Durand Woodman
Object Number:
1942.480
Marks:
Signature and date: Lower right: " T. H. H. / Catskill / 1858"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1858
eMuseum Object ID:
17030
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Southside Sportmen's Club, Oakdale, Long Island
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
n.d.
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 30 1/4 x 44 in. ( 76.8 x 111.8 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Robert G. Goelet
Object Number:
1973.39
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
17026
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Black Mountain from the Harbor Islands, Lake George, N.Y.
Collections:
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1875
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 32 1/2 x 60 in. ( 82.6 x 152.4 cm )
Framed: 48 3/4 x 76 3/4 x 6 3/4 in. ( 123.8 x 194.9 x 17.1 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Lucy Maria Durand Woodman
Object Number:
1907.17
Gallery Label:
The New-York Historical Society owns a number of preliminary studies for this, Durand's last major painting.
KATONAH MUSEUM OF ART, New York, HYDE COLLECTION, N-YHS,"Forever Wild: The Adirondack Experience" 1991-92
THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY, "Restored Visions: Recently Conserved Paintings from the Collection", 11/5/92-1/3/92.
Bibliography:
Executor's Sale, Studies in Oil by Asher B. Durand, N.A., Deceased, Ortgies' Art Gallery, New York, April 13 and 14, 1887, p. 19, no. 295.
Catalogue of the Gallery of Art of The New York Historical Society, New York: Printed for the Society, 1915, p. 41.
Mather, Frank Jewett, Morey, Charles Rufus, and Henderson, William James, The Pageant of America: The American Spirit in Art, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1927, p. 44.
Lawall, David B., Asher Brown Durand: His Art and Art Theory in Relation to his Times, Submitted to Princeton University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, March 1966, pp.193, 266-7, 412, 414, 469.
Lawall, David B., Asher B. Durand: A Documentary Catalogue of the Narrative and Landscape Paintings, New York & London, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1978, p. 163.
Koke, Richard J., American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society, Vol. I, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1982, pp. 362.
Vedder, Lee A., "Heeding the Call of Nature: Asher Brown Durand's Communion with the American Landscape," The New-York Journal of American History, New York: New-York Historical Society, Vol. LXV, No. 4, Fall 2004, pp. 40-1.
Ferber, Linda S., ed., Kindred Spirits Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape, Brooklyn Museum, 2007, pp. 199-200, 203.
Vedder, Lee A. "Nineteenth-century American paintings." The Magazine Antiques 167 (2005): 146-155.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1875
eMuseum Object ID:
17021
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Partial View of Building at Futtehpore-Sikri (Fatehpur-Sikri)
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
ca. 1880-1890
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 13 x 19 1/4 in. ( 33 x 48.9 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of James Hazen Hyde
Object Number:
1949.108
Gallery Label:
Born in Boston, Edwin Lord Weeks (1849-1903) studied in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and with Jéan-Leon Gerome (1824-1904) and Léon J.F. Bonnat (1833-1922). Weeks traveled extensively in Egypt, Jerusalem, Damascus, and Tangier, developing a specialty in Orientalist subjects.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1890
eMuseum Object ID:
17020
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
The Valentine
Classification:
Date:
1858
Medium:
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 11/16 x 6 3/8 x 3/8 in. ( 22.1 x 16.2 x 1 cm )
Credit Line:
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, the gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart
Object Number:
S-215
Marks:
inscriptions: Dated, signed lower left: Pecrus 1858 ?
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1858
eMuseum Object ID:
17014
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
The Mandoline
Classification:
Date:
1860
Medium:
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 9/16 x 5 1/4 x 3/8 in. ( 19.2 x 13.3 x 1 cm )
Credit Line:
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, the gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart
Object Number:
S-213
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed, dated lower left: C. Pecrus. '60.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1860
eMuseum Object ID:
17013
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Tired Spinner
Classification:
Date:
19th century
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 11 1/4 x 8 7/8 x 3/4 in. ( 28.6 x 22.5 x 1.9 cm )
Credit Line:
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, the gift of his widow Mrs. Mary Stuart
Object Number:
S-205
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed lower left dated ? K. E.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
17011
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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