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  Asher Brown Durand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Asher Brown Durand (1796 - 1886) was a U.S. painter of the Hudson River School.
Durand was apprenticed to an engraver from 1812 to 1817, later entering into a partnership the owner of the firm, who asked him to run the firm's New York branch.
Durand is noted for his 1849 painting Kindred Spirits which shows fellow Hudson River School artist Thomas Cole and poet William Cullen Bryant in a Catskills landscape.
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 Asher B. Durand
With the death of Cole, in 1848, Durand was recognized as the leader of American landscape painting.
Asher B. Durand: A Documentary Catalogue of the Narrative and Landscape Paintings, by David B. Lawall.
Asher Brown Durand, his art and art theory in relation to his times, by David B. Lawall.
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 ASHER BROWN DURAND
Asher Durand spent the first two decades of his working life as an engraver.
It was not unusual for Durand to accept a landscape commission in which setting and various details were stipulated by the patron.
Durand applied the Clandean formula: a tree framing a shadowy foreground, a body of water in the middle.
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 Asher Brown Durand Biography
Asher Brown Durand, the son of a watchmaker and silversmith, served a five year apprenticeship to an engraver, Peter Maverick, in Newark New Jersey.
The painting of Durand on this page was painted by Daniel Huntington in 1857 based on a trip to Franconia Notch in 1855 where Huntington accompanied Durand (see the Reference below).
Durand spent the rest of his life after 1857 painting in New York City.
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 Durand, Asher Brown on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
After 1835, Durand devoted himself to painting, producing portraits of several of the Presidents.
After a year of travel and study in Europe, he turned to landscape painting, becoming a leader of the Hudson River school.
Durand was a founder of the National Academy of Design, New York City, and its president from 1845 to 1861.
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 Asher B Durand (1796 - 1886) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Asher Brown Durand - Forest in the Morning Light c.
Asher Brown Durand - Trees on a Rocky Hillside c.
Asher Brown Durand - Dance on the Battery in the Presence of Peter Stuyvesant 1838 oil on canvas Museum of the City of New York American
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 Asher B. Durand Online
Asher B. Durand at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Asher B. Durand at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Asher B. Durand at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. Springfield Museum of Art, Ohio
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 Asher Brown Durand Painting 1/1/05
An accomplished artist and engraver in New York City, a member of the so-called Hudson River school of landscape painting, Asher B Durand painted nature, US Presidents, and historical scenes.
Asher's etchings of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin were featured on the very first two US postage stamps too.
I have published (Sep 2003) a book on the Durand family, featuring 17 of Asher's paintings.
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Known as the "father of American landscape painting", Asher Durand was the major exponent of the Hudson River School style of painting.
Durand was born in Jefferson Village, now Maplewood, New Jersey to a family of eleven children supported by the fat (showing 500 of 18718 characters).
Asher Durand is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
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 Asher Brown Durand
Durand, Asher Brown, 1796–1886, American painter and engraver, b.
At first he was painstaking and meticulous, but later his rendering became more spontaneous.
Durand, Asher Brown (The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition)
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 The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Durand, Asher Brown @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Durand, Asher Brown @ HighBeam Research
DURAND, ASHER BROWN [Durand, Asher Brown], 1796-1886, American painter and engraver, b.
Our archive contains millions of documents from thousands of sources and goes back over 23 years.
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 Asher Brown Durand [1796-1886] - Featured Artist on Artfact.com
Asher Brown Durand [1796-1886] - Featured Artist on Artfact.com
Auction houses that have sold works by Durand include:
Cleveland Museum of Art - Asher Brown Durand (American, 1796 - 1886)
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 Asher Brown Durand (1796-1886)
The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America; July 4th 1776 (George Wythe; William Whipple; Josiah Bartlett; Thomas Lynch; Benjamin Harrison; William Paca; Samuel Chase; Richard Stockton; Richard Henry Lee; Lewis Morris; Samuel Ada...)
by Asher Brown Durand, after Charles Cromwell Ingham
The online database contains information on 84,967 works, 44,595 of which are illustrated; the National Portrait Gallery's collection includes over 330,000 works.
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