Born in Hartford, Connecticut, George Durrie was known as the "snowman" because of the many winter scenes he painted. He lived most of his life in New Haven and earned a reputation for rural... Read full biography
Born in Hartford, Connecticut, George Durrie was known as the "snowman" because of the many winter scenes he painted. He lived most of his life in New Haven and earned a reputation for rural landscape scenes, especially snow scenes, which he introduced as subject matter in American painting. His... Read full biography
Born in Hartford, Connecticut, George Durrie was known as the "snowman" because of the many winter scenes he painted. He lived most of his life in New Haven and earned a reputation for rural landscape scenes, especially snow scenes, which he introduced as subject matter in American painting. His paintings "provide an excellent record of rural life in the mid-nineteenth century . and his carefully recorded details of nature and foliage added authenticity to his depictions." (Reed 15). He began... Read full biography
Born in Hartford, Connecticut, George Durrie was known as the "snowman" because of the many winter scenes he painted. He lived most of his life in New Haven and earned a reputation for rural landscape scenes, especially snow scenes, which he introduced as subject matter in American painting. His paintings "provide an excellent record of rural life in the mid-nineteenth century . and his carefully recorded details of nature and foliage added authenticity to his depictions." (Reed 15). He began the study of art in New Haven in 1839 with portraitist Nathaniel Jocelyn, and traveled about the Connecticut and New Jersey countryside filling commissions. He also painted still lifes, genre, and scenes from Shakespeare. He is credited with making... Read full biography
Born in Hartford, Connecticut, George Durrie was known as the "snowman" because of the many winter scenes he painted. He lived most of his life in New Haven and earned a reputation for rural landscape scenes, especially snow scenes, which he introduced as subject matter in American painting. His paintings "provide an excellent record of rural life in the mid-nineteenth century . and his carefully recorded details of nature and foliage added authenticity to his depictions." (Reed 15). He began the study of art in New Haven in 1839 with portraitist Nathaniel Jocelyn, and traveled about the Connecticut and New Jersey countryside filling commissions. He also painted still lifes, genre, and scenes from Shakespeare. He is credited with making the discovery that farm landscape scenes are more appealing when they appear to be covered with snow, he... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (81)
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Vose Art Notes: A Guide for Collectors A Compendium of Favorite Articles from the First Twelve Issues
2006
The Vose Family
65 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Masterworks of American Painting at the De Young (De Young Museum)
2005
Burgard, Timothy Anglin; Daniell Cornell
573 pages (color)
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
All American: Paintings and Sculpture from the Collection of the Flint Institute of (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Flint Institute of Arts
272 pages (color)
The American Artist in Connecticut The Legacy of the Hartford Steam Boiler Collection (Exhibition catalog)
2002
The Florence Griswold Museum
144 pages (color)
The Illustrator in America, 1860-2000 The Society of Illustrators
2001
Reed, Walt
452 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Nineteenth Century: Rediscovering American Painters (Vose Galleries) (Exhibition catalog)
1999
Jarzombek, Nancy Allyn
40 pages (color)
Master Pieces The Art History of Jigsaw Puzzles
1998
McCann, Chris (Author); Louis Darling (Illustrator)
223 pages (color)
American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols)
1996
Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin
877 pages (color)
American Art History and Culture
1994
Craven, Wayne
687 pages (color)
The Empire of the Eye Landscape and American Cultural Politics 1825-1875
1993
Miller, Angela
298 pages (color)
A Nation's Pride Art in the White House
1992
Kloss, William (et al)
375 pages (color)
American Selections 1850-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Lublin, Mary
163 pages (color)
Connecticut Masters: Fine Arts and Antiques Collections of Hartford Steam
1991
Ed: Hartford Boiler Coll.
271 pages (color)
American Genre Painting The Politics of Everyday Life
1991
Johns, Elizabeth
250 pages (color)
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
John Twachtman Connecticut Landscapes (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Chotner, Deborah (others)
118 pages (color)
American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1989
National Gallery of Art
203 pages (color)
The American Canvas/Paintings from Collection Fine Art Museum, San Fran
1989
Simpson, Marc (Mills, Saville)
254 pages (color)
American Paintings V 1988
1988
Berry-Hill Galleries
180 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Falk, Peter Hastings
472 pages
Winter (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Hall, Donald/Clifton C Olds
138 pages (color)
Nineteenth Century American Painting Thyssen Bornemiszma Collection
1986
Novak, Barbara
326 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
Treasures from the National Museu of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Kloss, William/C C Eldredge
254 pages (color)
National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist
1985
Smithsonian Institution
461 pages
The Waters of America 19th Century Paintings of Rivers, Streams, Lakes and Waterfalls (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Wilmerding, John
104 pages
Un Nouveau Monde chefs-d'ouvre de la peinture americaine 1760-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Ministere de la Culture
378 pages (color)
Artists in Virginia Before 1900: An Annotated Checklist
1983
Wright, R Lewis
200 pages
The American Landscape Tradition A Study and Gallery of Paintings
1982
Czestochowski, Joseph S
184 pages (color)
American Landscape/Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society (3 vols)
1982
Koke, Richard J
1,243 pages
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff
213 pages
America in Print 1796-1941 (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
128 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874 (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III
325 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works
1979
Brooklyn Museum
133 pages (color)
American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts
1979
Brown, Milton W (others)
616 pages (color)
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
Museum of Fine Arts The American and European Collections
1979
Springfield Library & Museum
216 pages (color)
Mirror to the American Past A Survey of American Genre Painting 1750-1900
1978
Williams, Herman Warner Jr
248 pages (color)
American Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
1977
Brown, Milton W
631 pages (color)
American Art at Amherst: A Summary Catalogue of the Collection At the Mead Art Gallery Amherst College (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Shepard, Lewis A; David Paley, Frank Trapp
252 pages (color)
Robert P Coggins Collection of American Art/Selections from (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Chambers, Bruce W
93 pages (color)
The Hudson River School 19th Century American Landscapes
1976
Wadsworth Atheneum
96 pages (color)
Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection
1975
Editor, Smithsonian
0 pages
The Painters' America Rural and Urban Life 1810-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Hills, Patricia
160 pages (color)
19th Century American Topographic Painters Lowe Art Museum Exhibition, November 21, 1974-January 5, 1975 (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Wilmerding, John (Introductory Essay)
95 pages (color)
The Artist's America American Heritage History of
1973
Davidson, Marshall
416 pages (color)
A History of American Art
1973
Mendelowitz, Daniel M
662 pages
Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set) (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Naylor, Maria
1,075 pages
Amon Carter Museum of Western Art Catalogue of the Collection 1972
1972
Amon Carter Museum
600 pages
Faces and Places Changing Images of 19th Century America (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
72 pages (color)
The Vincent Price Treasury of American Art
1972
Price, Vincent
320 pages (color)
American Masters, 18th and 19th Centuries Kennedy Galleries (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Wunderlich, Rudolf G; Lawrence A. Fleischman
64 pages (color)
The Beckoning Land A Selection of Nineteenth Century Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1971
Vigtel, Gudmund/D Hoopes
94 pages (color)
Nineteenth Century American Painting
1970
Flexner, James Thomas
256 pages
Forty Masterworks of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
57 pages (color)
Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc)
1970
Myers, Bernard S (editor)
511 pages (color)
American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes)
1969
Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed)
600 pages (color)
Our American Heritage Loan Exhibition New Britain Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Bernard Danenberg Galleries
36 pages
Hudson River School (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Genesco, S U College, New York
200 pages
The Connecticut Artists Collection
1968
Mattatuck Historical Society
84 pages
The American Tradition in the Arts
1968
McLanathan, Richard
492 pages
The American Vision Paintings 1825-1875 (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Public Education Association
64 pages (color)
With An Eye on the Gallery American Painters in Oil
1966
Dodd, Loring Holmes
251 pages
Art and Life in America Revised and Enlarged Edition
1966
Larkin, Oliver W
559 pages (color)
History Of American Painting: That Wilder Image Painting of America's Native School (Vol. 111)
1962
Flexner, James Thomas
407 pages
American Painting of the 19th Century (McMurray Collection) (Exhibition catalog)
1960
Pasadena Art Museum
64 pages
The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860
1957
Groce, George; David Wallace
759 pages
Encyclopedia of Painting
1955
Myers, Bernard
511 pages (color)
American Painting in the Brooklyn Museum Collection
1953
Brooklyn, Museum
48 pages
American Painting History and Interpretation
1950
Barker, Virgil
715 pages
American Landscape Painting An Interpretation
1948
Born, Wolfgang
228 pages
The Hudson River School Early American Landscape Tradition (Exhibition catalog)
1945
Sweet, Frederick A
123 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
Currier & Ives: Printmakers to the American People