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Chapel Pond Brook, Keene Flats, Adirondack Mountains, New York

Date: ca. 1870

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Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: Overall: 17 x 24 in. ( 43.2 x 61 cm ) Framed: 26 3/8 × 33 3/4 × 3 1/2 in. (67 × 85.7 × 8.9 cm)

Credit Line: Gift of Miss Nora Durand Woodman

Object Number: 1932.13

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Parts of this composition of this study were used in Durand's Chapel Pond Brook of 1871, also owned by the Society.

Bibliography:

Lawall, David B., Asher Brown Durand: His Art and Art Theory in Relation to his Times, Submitted to Princeton University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, March 1966, pp. 262, 362-7, 663-4.

Lawall, David B., Asher B. Durand: A Documentary Catalogue of the Narrative and Landscape Paintings, New York & London, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1978, p. 178.

Koke, Richard J., American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society, Vol. I, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 1982, p. 358.

Foshay, Ella M., and Novak, Barbara, Intimate Friends: Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, William Cullen Bryant, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 2000, p. 57.

Exhibitions:

"Intimate Friends: Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand and William Cullen Bryant," New-York Historical Society, October 24, 2000–February 4, 2001.

"Nature and the American Vision," New-York Historical Society, March 13, 2005–January 25, 2008; New-York Historical Society, April 4, 2008–January 25, 2009.

"The Works: Salon Style at the New-York Historical Society," New-York Historical Society, June 20, 2014–February 8, 2015.