Collection Highlights
Negro Life at the South
1859
S-225
Oil on linen
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Museum Collections
Hudson River School
Trees by the Brookside, Kingston, N.Y.
Title
Trees by the Brookside, Kingston, N.Y.
Date
ca. 1846
Medium
oil on linen
Dimensions
Overall: 22 x 17 x 1 in. ( 55.9 x 43.2 x 2.5 cm )
Frame: 30 5/8 x 26 x 3 in. (77.8 x 66 x 7.6 cm)
Credit Line
Purchase, The Louis Durr Fund
Object Number
1887.6
Bibliography
Executor's Sale, Studies in Oil by Asher B. Durand, N.A., Deceased, Ortgies' Art Gallery, New York, April 13 and 14, 1887.
Vail, R. W., Knickerbocker Birthday: A Sesqui Centennial History of The New-York Historical Society 1804-1954, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1954, p. 170.
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, pp. 244. 338-40.
Lawall, David B., Asher B. Durand: A Documentary Catalogue of the Narrative and Landscape Paintings, New York & London, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1978, p. 179.
Koke, Richard J., American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society, Vol. I, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1982, pp. 323-5.
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.
Ferber, Linda S., ed., "Asher B. Durand, American Landscape Painter," Kindred Spirits Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape, Brooklyn Museum, 2007, pp. 149, 153, 181, 202-3.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
