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1796 Jefferson Village, New Jersey - 1886 Jefferson Village, New Jersey. Known for: Engraving, landscape, portrait, and genre-history painting.
Known as the "father of American landscape painting", Asher Durand was the major exponent of the Hudson River School style of painting. However, he did not take up painting with any seriousness until... Read full biography
Known as the "father of American landscape painting", Asher Durand was the major exponent of the Hudson River School style of painting. However, he did not take up painting with any seriousness until he was age forty. His early career was engraving, and in 1823, he earned much distinction for his... Read full biography
Known as the "father of American landscape painting", Asher Durand was the major exponent of the Hudson River School style of painting. However, he did not take up painting with any seriousness until he was age forty. His early career was engraving, and in 1823, he earned much distinction for his engraving of John Trumbull's 1787 painting, The Declaration of Independence. Durand was born in Jefferson Village, now Maplewood, New Jersey to a family of eleven children supported by the father, John... Read full biography
Known as the "father of American landscape painting", Asher Durand was the major exponent of the Hudson River School style of painting. However, he did not take up painting with any seriousness until he was age forty. His early career was engraving, and in 1823, he earned much distinction for his engraving of John Trumbull's 1787 painting, The Declaration of Independence. Durand was born in Jefferson Village, now Maplewood, New Jersey to a family of eleven children supported by the father, John Durand, who was a watchmaker and silversmith. Working with his father monogramming watches and crafting silver, young Asher Durand developed engraving skills, which determined the early years of his career. At age 16, he went to Newark, where he... Read full biography
Known as the "father of American landscape painting", Asher Durand was the major exponent of the Hudson River School style of painting. However, he did not take up painting with any seriousness until he was age forty. His early career was engraving, and in 1823, he earned much distinction for his engraving of John Trumbull's 1787 painting, The Declaration of Independence. Durand was born in Jefferson Village, now Maplewood, New Jersey to a family of eleven children supported by the father, John Durand, who was a watchmaker and silversmith. Working with his father monogramming watches and crafting silver, young Asher Durand developed engraving skills, which determined the early years of his career. At age 16, he went to Newark, where he apprenticed to Peter Maverick, and five years later, they formed a partnership in New York City from 181... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Banknote Engraving
- •Drawing, Draftsmanship, Draughtsman
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
Art Media
- •Engraving, Engraver
- •Etching, Etcher
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Oil Paint
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
- •Hudson River School
- •Hudson River School Style of Painting
- •Luminous, Luminism
- •Pre-Raphaelite Influenced
- •Realist, Representational, Naturalist Style
Art Subject
- •Allegory, Metaphor, Parable
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Atmospherics, Dramatic Lighting
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
- •Landscape
- •Landscape with Cattle, Sheep or Other Farm Animals
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Mountain Views, Mountainscapes
- •Narrative, Story Telling
- •Portraits, Portraiture
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Adirondack Mountains
- •Catskill Mountains, New York
- •Europe
- •Hudson River Valley, New York
- •Italy Before World War I
- •Lake George, New York
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
- •White Mountains, New Hampshire
Art Association
- •Brooklyn Art Association
- •National Academy of Design, Elected Member
Art Teacher
- •Peter Maverick
Chronology
- •Early 19th Century Before Civil War
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Art Collection
- •Anschutz Collection
- •Gerald Peters Collection
- •Lumen Reed Collection
- •Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection
- •Warner Collection
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Genre Specialty
- •Narrative Specialty
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •AskART Panama Pacific Expo
- •Panama Pacific Exhibition of 1915
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Brooklyn Art Association-
- •National Academy of Design, New York
Exhibition of Museum
- •Boston Athenaeum
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York
Exhibition of Commercial Art Gallery and/or Salon
- •Paris Salons
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts