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Landscape -- Scene from "Thanatopsis" 1850. Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | Durand, Asher Brown | 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 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | Durand, Asher Brown | GA | ||
Summer Afternoon 1865 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | Durand, Asher Brown | GA | ||
Pastoral Landscape 1861 National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. | Durand, Asher Brown | GA | ||
A Pastoral Scene 1858 National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. | Durand, Asher Brown | GA | ||
Bayside, New Rochelle, New York 1886 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | Johnson, David | GA | ||
Near Squam Lake, New Hampshire 1856 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | Johnson, David | GA | ||
On the Unadilla, New York 1884 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | Johnson, David | GA | ||
Catskills August 1873 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Johnson, David | 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 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Johnson, David | GA |
- The Hudson River School
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