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Trees on a Rocky Hillside
Asher Brown Durandc. 1849
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Durand was one of the first American artists to paint outdoors, rather than in the confines of a studio, which was the longstanding tradition. This outdoor oil sketch of a seemingly random corner of the woods offers an intimate view of a granite outcropping amid lush vegetation. Its small-scale, unusually cropped composition contrasts with the sweeping vistas in many other landscapes of the era.
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- Title: Trees on a Rocky Hillside
- Creator: Asher Brown Durand (American, 1796–1886)
- Date Created: c. 1849
- Physical Dimensions: Framed: 64.8 x 83.2 x 7.9 cm (25 1/2 x 32 3/4 x 3 1/8 in.); Unframed: 42.5 x 61.3 cm (16 3/4 x 24 1/8 in.); Former: 53.5 x 72 x 6.5 cm (21 1/16 x 28 3/8 x 2 9/16 in.)
- Provenance: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, (Kennedy Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), Private collection, Philadelphia, probably consigned to Kennedy Galleries, (Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, NY, Nov. 17, 1966, no. 48, unsold), Private collection
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1968.21
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Inscriptions: Signed lower left: "ABD"
- Fun Fact: Before becoming a painter, Durand designed paper currency for the federal government.
- Department: American Painting and Sculpture
- Culture: America, 19th century
- Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
- Collection: American - Painting
- Accession Number: 1968.21
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