In 2015, an important early work by the American landscape painter Asher B. Durand entered the Palmer Museum of Art’s collection at Penn State University. The 1833 painting—the artist’s first commissioned landscape—is the focus of Asher B. Durand: To Begin Again. The exhibition, from Sept. 5 to Dec. 10, 2017, examines a pivotal turning point in the long career of Durand, a leading figure of the Hudson River School.Durand, who worked primarily as an engraver and an occasional portraitist in the 1820s, pursued landscape painting in earnest by the mid-1830s.
The exhibition celebrates this new acquisition, explores Durand’s significant contribution to the history of landscape painting in the United States, and features several major works from both public and private collections.
DETAIL: Asher B. Durand, Boonton Falls, New Jersey,
1833, oil on canvas. Purchased with funds from the Terra Art Enrichment
Fund, 2015.143. (Palmer Museum of Art)
Asher B. Durand, Boonton Falls, New Jersey, 1833, oil
on canvas. Purchased with funds from the Terra Art Enrichment Fund,
2015.143.
Asher B. Durand, after Thomas Sully, "John Quincy Adams," 1826
Asher B. Durand, after Charles C. Ingham, Catharine M. Sedgwick, 1834, engraving.
Asher B. Durand, after Thomas Sully, "John Quincy Adams," 1826
Asher B. Durand, after Charles C. Ingham, Catharine M. Sedgwick, 1834, engraving.
