DURAND, ASHER BROWN

dyoorăndˈ, 1796–1886, American painter and engraver, b. near Newark, N.J. He established a reputation by his engravings of Trumbull's Signing of the Declaration of Independence, followed by a series of engraved portraits of eminent contemporaries. After 1835, Durand devoted himself to painting, producing portraits of several of the Presidents. After a year of travel and study in Europe, he turned to landscape painting, becoming a leader of the Hudson River school. At first he was painstaking and meticulous, but later his rendering became more spontaneous. Examples of his work are In the Woods and The Beeches (Metropolitan Mus.); Woodland Brook and Franconia Notch (N.Y. Public Library); and Mountain Forest (Corcoran Gall.). Durand was a founder of the National Academy of Design, New York City, and its president from 1845 to 1861. Two of his allegorical paintings are there, Morning of Life and Evening of Life.

See biography by his son, John Durand (1894, repr. 1970).

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Essays on Grammatical Theory and Universal Grammar
Book by Doug Arnold, Martin Atkinson, Jacques Durand, Claire Grover, Louisa Sadler; Clarendon Press, 1989
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative And General
...allow stacking a succession of abl relations : 23 large brown female pigs where again the sequence is determined by semantic...Goldsmith 1985 . Anderson et al. 1985 , Anderson and Durand 1986, 1987a , or Anderson 1987 . Crudely, number constitutes...
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God and Enchantment of Place: Reclaiming Human Experience
Book by David Brown; Oxford University Press, 2004
Subjects: Natural Theology, Religion And Geography, Sacred Space
...Reclaiming Human Experience DAVID BROWN Great Clarendon Street, Oxford ox2 6dp...University Press Inc., New York David Brown, 2004 The moral rights of the author have...Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Brown, David, 1948 July 1- God and enchantment...
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Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Philosophers
Book by Stuart Brown, Diané Collinson, Robert Wilkinson; Routledge, 1996
Subjects: Philosophers--Biography--Dictionaries, Philosophy, Modern--20th Century--Dictionaries
...thought, whose insights he may be seen to have anticipated and transcended. WILLIAM OUTHWAITE Ahad ha-Am (pseudonym for Asher Ginsberg) Ukrainian Jew. b: 18 August 1856, Skwira, Kiev Province, d: 2 January 1927, Tel Aviv, British-mandated Palestine...
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Voluntarism, Planning, and the State: The American Planning Experience, 1914-1946
Book by Jerold E. Brown, Patrick D. Reagan, Ellis W. Hawley; Greenwood Press, 1988
Subjects: Political Planning--United States--History--20th Century
...Americanizers: The View From Milwaukee, 1866-1921 Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1967 , 114-20; Robert Asher, "The 1911 Wisconsin Workmens Compensation Law: A Study in Conservative Labor Reform", Wisconsin Magazine of History 57...
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American Romantic Painting
Book by Edgar P. Richardson, Robert Freund; E. Weyhe, 1944
Subjects: Painting, American, Painting--United States--History
...Pointed Firs." Brown, too, went abroad...landscape painters Durand and Cole, Kensett...romantic realism of Asher B. Durand is filled...of American Art. DURAND, ASHER BROWNBorn Jefferson...merit. 144. ASHER B. DURAND , 1857. Landscape...
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Thomas Cole's River in the Catskills as Antipastoral
Journal article by Alan Wallach; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 84, 2002
Subjects: Catskill Mountains--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Cole, Thomas--Works, Painters--Works
...Catskillaine." (77) Allen was the son-in-law of James Brown (1791-1877), a powerful international banker who founded the New York branch of Brown Brothers (later Brown Brothers Harriman and Co.), a firm known for its investments...
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What Do They Know, and Whom Do They Hold Accountable? Citizens in the Government-Nonprofit Contracting Relationship
Journal article by David M. Van Slyke, Christine H. Roch; Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Vol. 14, 2004
Subjects: Public administration--Analysis, Public administration--Research
...typically respond to telephone surveys (Asher 2001, 80), as well as the greater difficulty...Voluntary Sector Quarterly 28 (4): 452-75. Asher, Herbert. 2001. Polling and the public...Analysis and Management 20 (4): 765-69. Brown, Karin, and Philip Coulter. 1983. Subjective...
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Phi Alpha Theta Initiates
Journal article; The Historian, Vol. 69, 2007
Subjects: Universities and colleges--Calendars, Universities and colleges--United States
...6 December 2006: Elaine L. Durand, Emily C. Pfeifer, Muey Ching...Atkins, Mehrdod E. Bayat, Erin N. Brown, Stephanie A. Coon, Steven P...Kelsey Flynn, Sheldon Goldberg, Asher Kohn, David W. Lather, Jordan...Alexandra Bradley, Kristopher Brown, Jeffrey Chu, Christopher David...
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The Romanesque Revival, Mural Painting, and Protestant Patronage in America
Journal article by Kathleen Curran; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 81, 1999
Subjects: Architecture, Romanesque--Influence, Art patrons--19th century, Bowdoin College--Buildings, facilities, etc., Mural painting and decoration--19th century
...perhaps prominent artists like Daniel Huntington and Asher B. Durand could execute pictures on zinc plates that could then...further divided into a grid marked by red, blue, and brown stripes, with some arabesque work, and with an overall...
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Eastman Johnson's 'Negro Life at the South' and Urban Slavery in Washington, D.C
Journal article by John Davis; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 80, 1998
Subjects: Johnson, Eastman--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Painting, American--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Plantation life--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Slavery--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...Columbia (Washington, D.C.: L. Towers, 1862), 27-28. For details on urban slavery and Washington housing, see Wade (as in n. 20), chap. 3; Letitia W. Brown, "Residence Patterns of Negroes in the District of Columbia, 1800-1860," Records of the Columbi
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Nature's "Kindred Spirits"
Magazine article; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 136, March 2008
Subjects: Durand, Asher Brown--Exhibitions, Landscape painting--Exhibitions
...Spirits". ILLUSTRATION OMITTED ASHER B. DURAND (1796-1886) was a leading member...landscape painting. "Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape" is...19th century. "Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape" is...
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Nature's Palette: The Landscapes of Jasper Francis Cropsey
Magazine article by Pamela Hellwege; School Arts, Vol. 91, February 1992
Subjects: Hudson River school of landscape painting--Study and teaching, Landscape painters--Technique, Landscape painting--Study and teaching
...sizeable group of landscape artists. Other artists associated with this group are Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, Asher Brown Durand, Thomas Doughty and Frederic Edwin Church. The groups name came from a hostile critic and stuck despite its inaccuracy...
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Pile It High: Discount Shopping and Fine Art? Suzi Parker on the Latest Offer from Wal-Mart
Magazine article by Suzi Parker; New Statesman, Vol. 134, July 11, 2005
Subjects: Art exhibitions--Forecasts and trends, Art--Exhibitions, Art--Forecasts and trends, Discount stores--Officials and employees, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.--Officials and employees, Walton, Alice--Collections and collecting
...recently bought (with the Walton Family Foundation) Asher Brown Durands Kindred Spirits for $35m from the New York Public...Southerners who may not know a Winslow Homer from an Asher B Durand, it hopes to go further. Walton has connections...
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Lucent Dreams: The Art of Sanford R. Gifford
Magazine article by Judith Bell; World and I, Vol. 19, March 2004
Subjects: Gifford, Sanford Robinson (American painter), Painters (Artists)--Biography, Painters--Biography
...atmosphere. "Atmosphere," wrote Asher B. Durand, who along with Thomas Cole constituted...directions in life. Gifford studied at Brown University in 1841-43, the only Hudson...Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Cole and Durand were now senior artists and landscape...
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America's Verdant Cross
Magazine article by Simon Schama; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 19, Spring 1995
Subjects: Giant sequoia--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Myth in literature--Analysis, Trees--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...of all American forest interiors, Asher Durand. President of the National Academy of Design in New York, Durand was, in effect, the theologian of...types of the Divine attributes. Durands most famous painting--a virtual manifesto...
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Durand, Asher Brown
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
DURAND, ASHER BROWN dyoorand , 1796 1886, American painter...of eminent contemporaries. After 1835, Durand devoted himself to painting, producing...and Mountain Forest (Corcoran Gall.). Durand was a founder of the National Academy...
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American Art
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...enjoyed by such men as Mather Brown , Henry Benbridge , Edward Savage...school , which was continued by Asher B. Durand , John F. Kensett , and Frederick...River and Its Painters (1972); M. Brown, American Art (1979); D. Ashton...


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