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Asher Brown Durand (August 21, 1796 – September 17, 1886) was an American painter of the Hudson River School . Early life. Durand was born in, and eventually died in, Maplewood, New Jersey (then called Jefferson Village). He was the eighth of eleven children. Durand's father was a watchmaker and a silversmith.
The acknowledged dean of American landscape painters following the death of Thomas Cole, Asher Brown Durand exemplified the fresh ideal of naturalism for the second-generation painters that came to be called the Hudson River School.
Asher Brown Durand (August 21, 1796 – September 17, 1886) was an American painter of the Hudson River School. Durand was born in and eventually died in Maplewood, New Jersey (then called Jefferson Village), the eighth of eleven children; his father was a watchmaker and a silversmith.
Asher B. Durand (born August 21, 1796, Jefferson Village, New Jersey, U.S.—died September 17, 1886, Jefferson Village) was an American painter, engraver, and illustrator, one of the founders of the Hudson River school of landscape painting.
Asher Brown Durand. American, 1796 - 1886. Biography. Works of Art. Artist Bibliography. Biography. Asher B. Durand was born on August 21, 1796, in Jefferson Village (now Maplewood), New Jersey, and studied engraving with his father, a watchmaker and silversmith. From 1812 to 1817 he was apprenticed to the New Jersey engraver Peter Maverick.
Sep 13, 2017 · Asher B. Durand studied printmaking with his father and became a successful engraver by age twenty-four. But Thomas Cole’s canvases of New York State’s mountains and cascades inspired Durand to leave engraving and become a painter.
Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape. March 30–July 29, 2007. This exhibition of nearly sixty works is the first monographic exhibition devoted to Asher B. Durand’s career in more than thirty-five years.
Asher Brown Durand (August 21, 1796 – September 17, 1886) was an American painter of the Hudson River School. Early life. Durand was born in and eventually died in Maplewood, New Jersey (then called Jefferson Village), the eighth of eleven children; his father was a watchmaker and a silversmith.
Asher Brown Durand American. After John Vanderlyn American. ca. 1831–35. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 756. Before he became a painter, Durand was considered the foremost engraver in the United States.
Durand implored American artists to "go first to nature," to learn all of the most important principles of fine art, arguing that the humblest rock could teach painters more than the...
