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Elizabeth Gardner Bouguereau
      1837-1922
Elizabeth Gardner Bouguereau In The Woods USA oil painting artist


In The Woods
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Painting ID::  3099
Visit European Gallery 		  1889

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Asher Brown Durand
      1796-1886 Asher Brown Durand Galleries His interest shifted from engraving to oil painting around 1830 with the encouragement of his patron, Luman Reed. In 1837, he accompanied his friend Thomas Cole on a sketching expedition to Schroon Lake in the Adirondacks and soon after he began to concentrate on landscape painting. He spent summers sketching in the Catskills, Adirondacks, and the White Mountains of New Hampshire, making hundreds of drawings and oil sketches that were later incorporated into finished academy pieces which helped to define the Hudson River School. Durand is particularly remembered for his detailed portrayals of trees, rocks, and foliage. He was an advocate for drawing directly from nature with as much realism as possible. Durand wrote, "Let [the artist] scrupulously accept whatever [nature] presents him until he shall, in a degree, have become intimate with her infinity...never let him profane her sacredness by a willful departure from truth." Like other Hudson River School artists, Durand also believed that nature was an ineffable manifestation of God. He expressed this sentiment and his general views on art in his "Letters on Landscape Painting" in The Crayon, a mid-19th century New York art periodical. Wrote Durand, "[T]he true province of Landscape Art is the representation of the work of God in the visible creation..." Durand is noted for his 1849 painting Kindred Spirits which shows fellow Hudson River School artist Thomas Cole and poet William Cullen Bryant in a Catskills landscape. This was painted as a tribute to Cole upon his death in 1848. The painting, donated by Bryant's daughter Julia to the New York Public Library in 1904, was sold by the library through Sotheby's at an auction in May 2005 to Alice Walton for a purported $35 million. The sale was conducted as a sealed, first bid auction, so the actual sales price is not known. At $35 million, however, it would be a record price paid for an American painting at the time.
Asher Brown Durand In the woods USA oil painting artist


In the woods
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Painting ID::  51433
Visit European Gallery 		  mk218 1855 Oil on canvas 153.5x124.5cm

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
      French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919 French painter, printmaker and sculptor. He was one of the founders and leading exponents of IMPRESSIONISM from the late 1860s, producing some of the movement's most famous images of carefree leisure. He broke with his Impressionist colleagues to exhibit at the Salon from 1878, and from c. 1884 he adopted a more linear style indebted to the Old Masters. His critical reputation has suffered from the many minor works he produced during his later years.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir In the Woods USA oil painting artist


In the Woods
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Painting ID::  82480
Visit European Gallery 		  Date ca. 1880(1880) Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 55.8 x 46.3 cm (22 x 18.2 in) cjr

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Pierre Auguste Renoir
      1848-94
Pierre Auguste Renoir In the Woods USA oil painting artist


In the Woods
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Painting ID::  85927
Visit European Gallery 		  1880(1880) Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 55.8 x 46.3 cm (22 x 18.2 in) cyf

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