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Nature and the American Vision: The Hudson River School

September 21, 2012 - February 20, 2013

White Mountain Scenery, Franconia Notch, N.H.

White Mountain Scenery, Franconia Notch, N.H.
Title
White Mountain Scenery, Franconia Notch, N.H.
Date 
1857
Medium 
Oil on canvas
Dimensions 
Overall: 48 1/4 x 72 1/2 in. ( 122.6 x 184.2 cm )Frame: 62 1/2 x 86 1/2 x 5 in. ( 158.8 x 219.7 x 12.7 cm )
Credit Line 
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, on permanent loan from the New York Public Library
Object Number 
S-105
Gallery Label 
Durand's small study of Franconia, also in the Stuart Collection (Stuart 211) at the NYHS, served as a model for parts of this composition.
Bibliography 
Clement, Clara Erskine, and Hutton, Laurence, Artists of the Nineteenth Century and their Works: A Handbook Containing Two Thousand and Fifty Biographical Sketches, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1880, Vol. I, p. 227. Huntington, Daniel, Asher B. Durand: A Memorial Address, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1887, pp. 34, 39. Catalogue of Paintings in the Picture Galleries, New York: The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, 1912, p. 23. Catalogue of Paintings in the Picture Galleries, New York: The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, 1929, p. 27. Catalogue of Paintings in the Picture Galleries, New York: The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, 1941, p. 22. Richardson, Edgar P., American Romantic Painting, New York: E. Weyhe, 1944, pp. 13, 31. 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. 169-70, 266, 379-80, 411-2, 487-8, 557-8, 664, 667. Lawall, David B., Asher B. Durand: A Documentary Catalogue of the Narrative and Landscape Paintings, New York & London, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1978, pp. 117-9. 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. 345. Campbell, Catherine H., New Hampshire Scenery: a Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Artists of New Hampshire Mountain Landscapes, Canaan, New Hampshire: Phoenix Publishing, 1985, p 53. Voorsanger, Catherine Hoo