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Charles Robert Leslie. Related Exhibitions. Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape September 13, — January 6, Linda S. Ferber, vice president and director of the museum division of the New-York Historical Society, organized the exhibition; Eleanor Harvey, the museum's chief curator, is the coordinating curator in Washington.

Before you leave Want to Research Prints or Find Posters? Although Durand had occasionally done some painting, he did not give up engraving in favor of painting until about , when Luman Reed, a wealthy New York collector, commissioned him to do portraits of the early American presidents. In Durand traveled to Europe, where he admired the work of the 17th-century Dutch masters as well as Salvator Rosa and Claude Lorrain.

Durand succeeded Samuel F. Morse as president of the National Academy of Design, New York, in and held the office until , when he resigned. Because Durand had been trained as an engraver, his earlier paintings are hard in texture and meticulous in detail, and his color is pale in tone.

However, he soon developed a freer style and a richness of color. Two notable canvases, the Morning of Life and the Evening of Life, are allegories of the ages of man and depict imaginary landscapes in a rich and luxurious manner. But he was also a very factual painter. New York: Kennedy Graphics, Ferber, Linda S. Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape. Exhibition catalogue. Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum, Lawall, David B. New York: Garland, Visiting The Met? Ariadne Asher Brown Durand.

Luman Reed Asher Brown Durand. The Beeches Asher Brown Durand. In the Woods Asher Brown Durand. River Scene Asher Brown Durand. Sketch from Nature Asher Brown Durand.