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Summary
Asher Brown Durand: The Catskills
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| Title |
The Catskills |
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| Genre |
landscape painting |
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| Description |
English: This painting was commissioned by William T. Walters in 1858, when the 62-year-old Durand was at the height of his fame and technical skill. The vertical format of the composition was a trademark of the artist, allowing him to exploit the grandeur of the sycamore trees as a means of framing the expansive landscape beyond. Durand's approach to the "sublime landscape" was modeled on that of Thomas Cole (1801–48), founder of the Hudson River School of painting. The painters of this school explored the countryside of the eastern United States, particularly the Adirondack Mountains and the Catskills. Their paintings often reflect the Transcendental philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82), who believed that all of nature bore testimony to a spiritual truth that could be understood through personal intuition. |
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| Depicted place | Catskill Mountains | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1859 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | oil on canvas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 158.8 cm (62.5 in); width: 128.3 cm (50.5 in); Framed height: 197.8 cm (77.8 in); width: 167.9 cm (66.1 in); depth: 18.4 cm (7.2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Accession number |
37.122 |
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| Place of creation | USA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Credit line |
1858: commissioned by William T. Walters |
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| Inscriptions |
Signature bottom: A.B.Durand
Date bottom:
1859
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| Source |
Walters Art Museum:  Home page  Info about artwork |
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Licensing
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This file was provided to Wikimedia Commons by the Walters Art Museum as part of a cooperation project. All artworks in the photographs are in public domain due to age. The photographs of two-dimensional objects are also in the public domain. Photographs of three-dimensional objects and all descriptions have been released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License and the GNU Free Documentation License.
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This is a faithful photographic reproduction of an original two-dimensional work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
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- 2011-08-22 00:54 Ksk2875 1447×1799× (340470 bytes) {{Information |Description = The Catskills |Source = http://art.thewalters.org/viewwoa.aspx?id=19883 |Date = 1859 |Author = Asher Brown Durand |Permission = Artist died in 1886 |other_versions = }}
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