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Landscape -- Scene from "Thanatopsis"

1850.
oil on canvas.
39 1/2 x 61 in. (100.3 x 154.9 cm).

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

Durand, Asher Brownnotes
Description: The landscape was inspired by William Cullen Bryant's poem "Thanatopsis" (1811, 1817), and shows a winding river on the left and a castle on the right with jagged mountains behind it. In the foreground there is a goat grazing beside a tree.
GA
River Scene

1854
oil on canvas
24 x 34 1/8 in. (61 x 86.7 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

Durand, Asher Brown GA
Summer Afternoon

1865
oil on canvas
22 1/2 x 35 in. (57.2 x 88.9 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

Durand, Asher Brown GA
Pastoral Landscape

1861
oil on canvas
Overall: 99 x 152.5 cm (39 x 60 1/16 in.) framed: 132.7 x 184.8 x 12.7 cm (52 1/4 x 72 3/4 x 5 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C.

Durand, Asher Brown GA
A Pastoral Scene

1858
oil on canvas
Overall: 55.5 x 82.3 cm (21 7/8 x 32 3/8 in.) framed: 83.2 x 108.9 cm (32 3/4 x 42 7/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C.

Durand, Asher Brown GA
Bayside, New Rochelle, New York

1886
oil on canvas
19 1/2 x 24 in. (49.5 x 61 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

Johnson, David GA
Near Squam Lake, New Hampshire

1856
oil on canvas
18 15/16 x 28 in. (48.1 x 71.1 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

Johnson, David GA
On the Unadilla, New York

1884
oil on canvas
23 x 37 in. (58.4 x 94 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

Johnson, David GA
Catskills

August 1873
Graphite and white opaque highlights on gray/brown, moderately thick, smooth woven paper
Sheet: 10 x 14 in. (25.4 x 35.6 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

Johnson, Davidnotes
This drawing of a gnarled tree growing over boulders contains passages of both meticulous deliberation and charming spontaneity. It appears that the artist took a quick break from the primary scene to sketch another subject in the upper right corner of the sheet. With a few economical strokes of his pencil and brush, he created the barest outline of...
GA
Wallkill Scenery

ca. 1885
Oil on composition board
8 7/16 x 11 1/16 in. (21.5 x 28.1 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

Johnson, David GA
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