Collection Highlights
Marian Anderson (1897-1993)
c. 1940-45
1947.216
Watercolor, gouache, white tempera, and charcoal on heavy watercolor paper
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Museum Collections
Hudson River School
View of the Shandaken Mountains, New York
Title
View of the Shandaken Mountains, New York
Date
1853
Medium
oil on linen
Dimensions
Overall (linen): 16 x 24 x 1 in. (40.6 x 61 x 2.5 cm)
Frame: 22 1/2 x 30 x 3 in. (22 1/2 x 30 x 3 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Nora Durand Woodman
Object Number
1932.21
Marks
Stencil on stretcher: "684"; stencil on canvas reverse: "PREPARED / BY / EDW DECHAUS / NEW-YORK"; reverse canvas inscribed in pen: "TO LUCY FROM HER FATHER / JANY. 1, 1854 / VIEW OF SHANDAKEN MOUNTAIN"
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. 247.
Lawall, David B., Asher B. Durand: A Documentary Catalogue of the Narrative and Landscape Paintings, New York & London, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1978, p. 185.
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. 332.
For Spacious Skies: Hudson River School Paintings from the Henry and Sharon Martin Collection, New Britain, Connecticut: New Britain Museum of American Art, 2005, pp. 32-3, 82-3.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
