Asher B. Durand and the old masters.(Biography)
From: The Magazine Antiques
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Date: 3/1/2007
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Author: Gallati, Barbara Dayer
In 1859 the Crayon, the pioneering periodical devoted to American art and culture, published portions of biographical entries devoted to artists taken from The New American Cyclopaedia (1858). (1) Included was a piece on Asher B. Durand, the president of the National Academy of Design in New York City and the leading painter of the American landscape school, whose visions of native forest interiors were particularly valued for the poetic truths they conveyed. The brief summary of ...
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