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Asher Brown Durand, Study of a Wood Interior, c. 1855, oil on canvas mounted on panel, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, gift of Mrs. Frederic F. Durand, 1932.1

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Though the earliest references to the term “Hudson River School” in the 1870s were disparagingly aimed, the label has never been supplanted and fairly characterizes the artistic body, its New York headquarters, its landscape subject matter, and often literally its subject.

Inspired by William Cullen Bryant's poem "Thanatopsis," this landscape was first exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1850. The catalogue noted lines from Bryant's poem. After the exhibition, the picture was acquired by the American Art-Union and distributed in the same year to one of its subscribers

Artist: Asher Brown Durand (American, Jefferson, New Jersey 1796–1886 Maplewood, New Jersey). Date: 1845. Culture: American. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimens...

Woodland Interior Durand, Asher Brown