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Nature and the American Vision: The Hudson River School
September 21, 2012 - February 20, 2013
White Mountain Scenery, Franconia Notch, N.H.
Title
White Mountain Scenery, Franconia Notch, N.H.
Date
1857
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Overall: 48 1/4 x 72 1/2 in. ( 122.6 x 184.2 cm )Frame: 62 1/2 x 86 1/2 x 5 in. ( 158.8 x 219.7 x 12.7 cm )
Credit Line
The Robert L. Stuart Collection, on permanent loan from the New York Public Library
Object Number
S-105
Gallery Label
Durand's small study of Franconia, also in the Stuart Collection (Stuart 211) at the NYHS, served as a model for parts of this composition.
Bibliography
Clement, Clara Erskine, and Hutton, Laurence, Artists of the Nineteenth Century and their Works: A Handbook Containing Two Thousand and Fifty Biographical Sketches, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1880, Vol. I, p. 227.
Huntington, Daniel, Asher B. Durand: A Memorial Address, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1887, pp. 34, 39.
Catalogue of Paintings in the Picture Galleries, New York: The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, 1912, p. 23.
Catalogue of Paintings in the Picture Galleries, New York: The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, 1929, p. 27.
Catalogue of Paintings in the Picture Galleries, New York: The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, 1941, p. 22.
Richardson, Edgar P., American Romantic Painting, New York: E. Weyhe, 1944, pp. 13, 31.
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. 169-70, 266, 379-80, 411-2, 487-8, 557-8, 664, 667.
Lawall, David B., Asher B. Durand: A Documentary Catalogue of the Narrative and Landscape Paintings, New York & London, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1978, pp. 117-9.
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. 345.
Campbell, Catherine H., New Hampshire Scenery: a Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Artists of New Hampshire Mountain Landscapes, Canaan, New Hampshire: Phoenix Publishing, 1985, p 53.
Voorsanger, Catherine Hoover, and Howat, John K., Art and the Empire City New York, 1825-1861, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000, pp. 100-2.
Foshay, Ella M., and Novak, Barbara, Intimate Friends: Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, William Cullen Bryant, New York: The New-York Historical Society, 2000, pp. 30-1, 34-5, 56.
McGrath, Robert L., Gods in Granite: The Art of the White Mountains of New Hampshire, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2001, pp. 116-120.
Vedder, Lee A., "Heeding the Call of Nature: Asher Brown Durand's Communion with the American Landscape," The New-York Journal of American History, New York: New-York Historical Society, Vol. LXV, No. 4, Fall 2004, pp. 38-9, 46-7.
Leggio, Gail, "Nature's Presence: Asher B. Durand and American Landscape," American Arts Quarterly, Spring 2007, pp. 10-3, 16-8.
Ferber, Linda S., ed., Kindred Spirits Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape, Brooklyn Museum, 2007, pp. 188-9, 203.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.



