What would the lions in front of the New York Public Library fetch at auction? This seems a reasonable question, given that the New York Public Library recently sold off one of the most celebrated ...

The New York Public Library used funds raised by selling artworks, including Asher B. Durand’s “Kindred Spirits,” to purchase the papers of the historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., who died in ...

"Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape," the one-man exhibition that goes on view Friday at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, takes its title from its centerpiece -- Durand's ...

The painting, titled “Return to Kindred Spirits,” is a play off of Durand’s most famous painting, “Kindred Spirits,” which he completed in 1849. “I’m so proud of it,” Gray said. “It makes a great ...

It may seem lately every time you walk into a museum you see an Asher Durand exhibition. Thirty years ago, we had the Summer of Sam. This year brings us the Summer of Durand. It’s hardly a bad thing.

"American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection," Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, June 4-Sept. 4, 1989, 5. Ferber, Linda S., ed., "Kindred Spirits: Asher B ...

"Three hundred years of American painting: the Montclair Art Museum collection," New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1989. Montclair Art Museum, unpublished checklist, 1988. "The American Painting ...

The painting depicts the boulder with the sun bouncing off it with a small figure of Gray’s son standing next to it. Gray’s other brother, Randy, can be spotted fly fishing faintly in the background ...