Catalog of an exhibition held at the Brooklyn Museum, Mar. 30-July 29, 2007, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Sept. 14, 2007-Jan. 6, 2008, and the San Diego Museum of Art, Feb 2-Apr. 27, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-229) and index.
Contents:
Foreword -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Lenders to the exhibition -- Introduction : the history of a reputation / Linda S. Ferber -- Asher B. Durand's New York : the life of the city in the nineteenth century / Kenneth T. Jackson -- Asher B. Durand's early career : a portrait of the artist as an ambitious man / Barbara Dayer Gallati -- "A year of toilsome exile" : Asher B. Durand's European sojourn / Barbara Dayer Gallati -- Asher B. Durand, American landscape painter / Linda S. Ferber -- Chronology / compiled by Sarah B. Snook -- Selected bibliography -- Appendix : "Letters on landscape painting" -- Index.
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