FOR some inscrutable reason, this seems to be the year of Asher B. Durand. A massive exhibition of the 19th-century landscape painter has just opened at the Brooklyn Museum and another – having to do ...

American artist Asher B. Durand made headlines in 2005 when one of his mid-19th-century paintings was purchased by Wal-Mart heiress Alice L. Walton from the New York Public Library for a purported $35 ...

A new collaboration between between ecologists and art historians explored whether it’s possible to get accurate information about landscape ecology from nineteenth century paintings. They studied the ...

"Group of Trees," by Asher Durand via Oregon State University, ca. 1856. A new study from OSU shows that landscape paintings like Durand's could be used to aid historical forest research. When you ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – An Oregon State University-led collaboration of ecologists and art historians has demonstrated that landscape paintings from more than 150 years ago can advance environmental ...

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.

An imaginary journey through the beautiful landscapes of the United States, immortalized by some of the most iconic painters and photographers of the "New World". On October 4, 2024, the Brooklyn ...

"Catalogue of American portraits in the New-York Historical Society; volume 1," New Haven: Published for the New York Historical Society by Yale University Press, 1974. Ferber, Linda S., ed., "Kindred ...

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 ...

“KINDRED Spirits,” an 1849 painting by Hudson River School artist Asher B. Durand, has been sold at auction for a reported $35 million to Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton, who said the piece will be ...

“We are still in Eden; the wall that shuts us out of the garden is our ignorance and folly.” Thomas Cole. Essay on American Scenery, 1835. The Poetry of Nature, organized by the New-York Historical ...