Asher Brown Durand, 1853 - High Point: Shandaken Mountains - fine art print

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This work, first shown at the National Academy of Design’s annual exhibition in New York City in 1853, depicts a scene near the town of Olive, New York, where Durand spent the summers of 1853 and 1855. During those months, he repeated sketches he had made of a nearby mountain, High Point (also known as Ashokan High Point), on an earlier visit to the region in 1847. In this painting, in contrast to his large “historical landscapes,” the artist focused on depicting light and shade in the type of bucolic setting popular with an increasingly urban American public—represented here by the couple fishing on the bank of the stream, enjoying the bounty of nature.

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The more than 160 year-old work of art was painted by the romanticist painter Asher Brown Durand. The 160 years old version of the piece of art was made with the size: 32 3/4 x 48 in (83,2 x 121,9 cm) and was painted with the medium oil on canvas. Besides, the piece of art is part of the art collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. With courtesy of - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bequest of Sarah Ann Ludlum, 1877 (licensed - public domain). The creditline of the artpiece is: Bequest of Sarah Ann Ludlum, 1877. Besides, the alignment is landscape and has a ratio of 3 : 2, which means that the length is 50% longer than the width. Asher Brown Durand was a engraver, painter, whose artistic style was primarily Romanticism. The North American artist was born in the year 1796 in Jefferson, Monmouth county, New Jersey, United States and passed away at the age of 90 in the year 1886 in Maplewood, Essex county, New Jersey, United States.

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