Artist/Maker Asher B. Durand (American, 1796 – 1886)

Trees by the Brookside, Kingston, New York

ca. 1846

Place madeNew York, United States, North America

Oil on canvas

Unframed: 22 × 17 × 1 in. (55.9 × 43.2 × 2.5 cm)
Framed: 30 5/8 in. × 26 in. × 3 in. (77.8 × 66 × 7.6 cm)

Purchase, The Louis Durr Fund

1887.6

Durand used this study as the model for the trees in the foreground of a large studio creating titled, "Landscape, Composition, Forenoon," 1847 now in the New Orleans Museum of Art. The majority of the New-York Historical Society's extensive holdings of Durand's oil studies entered the collection as gifts from the artist's family. However, several of them, including this work and "Study from Nature: Group of Trees," were purchased by the Art Committee out of Durand's 1887 estate sale. Acquired only a year after the artist's death, this purchase confirmed the Society's recognition of these studies as works of aesthetic and historical importance and may have inspired his family's generosity over the next several decades.

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