Collection Highlights
The Course of Empire: The Consummation of Empire
1836
1858.3
Oil on canvas (relined)
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Museum Collections
Hudson River School
Tree Study, Newburgh, N.Y.
Title
Tree Study, Newburgh, N.Y.
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
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.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
