Old Orchard Beach, Maine
Classification:
Date:
n.d.
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 14 x 24 in. ( 35.6 x 61 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Nora Durand Woodman
Object Number:
1932.18
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
521
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Catskill Study, N.Y.
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1870
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 16 3/4 x 24 in. ( 42.5 x 61 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Nora Durand Woodman
Object Number:
1932.29
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. 262.
Lawall, David B., Asher B. Durand: A Documentary Catalogue of the Narrative and Landscape Paintings, New York & London, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1978, p. 178.
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. 358.
Foshay, Ella M., and Novak, Barbara, Intimate Friends: Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, William Cullen Bryant, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 2000, p. 57.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1870
eMuseum Object ID:
519
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Two Trees
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1851
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 21 x 16 1/2 in. ( 53.3 x 41.9 cm )
frame: 25 1/4 x 21 x 2 1/4 in. ( 64.1 x 53.3 x 5.7 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Nora Durand Woodman
Object Number:
1932.48
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. 246.
Lawall, David B., Asher B. Durand: A Documentary Catalogue of the Narrative and Landscape Paintings, New York & London, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1978, p. 171.
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. 332.
Foshay, Ella M., and Novak, Barbara, Intimate Friends: Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, William Cullen Bryant, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 2000, p. 54.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1851
eMuseum Object ID:
514
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Tree Study, Newburgh, N.Y.
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1849
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 22 1/8 x 18 in. ( 56.2 x 45.7 cm )
Frame: 28 3/4 x 25 x 3 1/2 in. (73 x 63.5 x 8.9 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of Nora Durand Woodman
Object Number:
1932.49
Gallery Label:
Durand was a major advocate of outdoor painting in America, and he is still celebrated for the modestly scaled but powerful plein air paintings in which he recorded years of experience at the sketching grounds of the American landscape school. Thirteen of these works are on view here; they served as studies for his pastoral landscapes as well as for the vertical American forest interiors like Primeval Forest, ca. 1854 and Woodland Brook, 1859 that were so closely identified with Durand. Following traditional academic process, Durand used his drawn and painted studies to create the final exhibition work, which was an elaborate invention, or composition, painted in the studio. Nevertheless, the artist's close on-site study of natural objects and atmospheric effects informed the growing realism of Durand's exhibition pictures from the 1850s on.
Bibliography:
Lawall, David B., Asher B. Durand: A Documentary Catalogue of the Narrative and Landscape Paintings, New York & London, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1978, p. 171.
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. 3 .
Harvey, Eleanor Jones, The Painted Sketch: American Impressions from Nature 1830-1880, Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art, 1998, pp. 130-1.
Peck, H. Daniel, "Unlikely Kindred Spirits: A New Vision of Landscape in the Works of Henry David Thoreau and Asher B. Durand," American Literary History, Vol. 17, no. 4, Winter 2005, pp. 695-6, 702.
Ferber, Linda S., ed., Kindred Spirits Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape, Brooklyn Museum, 2007, pp. 22-5.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1849
eMuseum Object ID:
513
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Nature Study
Collections:
Classification:
Date:
1853
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 20 x 16 in. ( 50.8 x 40.6 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Nora Durand Woodman
Object Number:
1932.53
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. 248.
Lawall, David B., Asher B. Durand: A Documentary Catalogue of the Narrative and Landscape Paintings, New York & London, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1978, p. 173.
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. 332.
Foshay, Ella M., and Novak, Barbara, Intimate Friends: Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, William Cullen Bryant, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 2000, p. 54.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1853
eMuseum Object ID:
512
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Frigate
Classification:
Medium:
oil
Dimensions:
Overall: 17 x 25 x 1 in. ( 43.2 x 63.5 x 2.5 cm )
Object Number:
1932.55
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
511
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Royal Samuel Copeland, M.D. (1868-1938)
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
Early 20th century
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 34 x 28 in. ( 86.4 x 71.1 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Sydney Mayer
Object Number:
1964.42
Gallery Label:
A native of Michigan, Dr. Copeland was a professor at the University of Michigan from 1895 to 1908 and later dean of Flower Hospital Medical College in New York (1908-18) and city commissioner of public health (1918-22). As U.S. senator from New York (1923-38) he was active in sponsoring legislation to guarantee the purity of food and drugs.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
509
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Francis Robert Schell (after 1850-1928)
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
ca. 1855-1860
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 26 3/4 x 21 3/4 in. ( 67.9 x 55.2 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Francis Robert Schell
Object Number:
1934.10
Gallery Label:
The subject, the son of Robert Schell and Mary Stewart (Taber) Schell of New York and East Northfield, Mass., was a life member of The New-York Historical Society from 1867 and its vice-president from 1903 until his death. He is represented here at the age of about five.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1860
eMuseum Object ID:
508
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Christopher Heiser (1794-1857)
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1850
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 16 x 13 in. ( 40.6 x 33 cm )
Credit Line:
Gift of Frederick I. Lockman
Object Number:
1935.146
Gallery Label:
In partnership with Philip French, the subject was lessee and proprietor of Castle Garden in New York from 1842 to 1854. It was during this period that Swedish soprano Jenny Lind made her American debut there.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
507
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Untitled: Night Scene
Classification:
Medium:
oil on artboard
Dimensions:
Overall: 8 x 10 x 1 in. ( 20.3 x 25.4 x 2.5 cm )
Object Number:
1974.57
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
0
eMuseum Object ID:
505
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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