Collection Highlights
Proposed Coat of Arms for New Amsterdam, New Netherland: Preparatory Drawing for a Presentation to the Dutch West India Company
Date:
ca. 1630
Object Number:
1885.5
Medium:
Black ink and wash, watercolor, red and black chalk, and red gouache, with contours incised by a stylus on laid on paper, mounted on card
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Museum Collections
Paintings
Landscape: A Valley and Mountains Catskill, NY
Object Number:
1918.342
Date:
19th century
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 13 3/8 x 7 1/2 in. ( 34 x 19 cm )
Gallery Label:
This is a fragment cut from a larger picture. Lawall notes that the relationship among the nearest foliage, floor a distant valley, and a distant valley, and mountains is similar to that to the right of center of Durand's Dover Plains, 1848.
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. 203.
Lawall, David B., Asher B. Durand: A Documentary Catalogue of the Narrative and Landscape Paintings, New York & London, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1978, p. 168.
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. 365.
Credit Line:
Gift of Nora Durand Woodman
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
