Collection Highlights
Castle Garden, New York City
1859
1972.13
Oil on canvas (relined)
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Beacon Hills on the Hudson River
Title
Beacon Hills on the Hudson River
Date
ca. 1852
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Overall (canvas): 32 x 46 in. (81.3 x 116.8 cm)
Frame: 43 1/2 x 57 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. (110.5 x 146.1 x 11.4 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Lucy Maria Durand Woodman
Object Number
1907.11
Gallery Label
This painting is closely related in subject, composition, and style to Durand's Fishkill Mountains, New York, signed and dated 1856, owned by the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore. The Society's study probably dates to the same year.
Bibliography
Catalogue of the Gallery of Art of The New York Historical Society, New York: Printed for the Society, 1915, p. 42.
Lawall, David B., Asher Brown Durand: His Art and Art Theor