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View at the museum ↗Study of Rocks in Pearson's Ravine
Asher Brown Durandmid–1850s
- Attribution
- Asher B. Durand American, 1796–1886
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Physical dimensions
- 61 × 45.7 cm (24 × 18 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Jamee J. and Marshall Field
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Asher B. Durand was a prominent figure of the Hudson River School who contributed to the rise of American landscape painting in the 1840s and 1850s. His Study of Rocks in Pearson’s Ravine depicts a fragment of forested terrain in the Delaware River Valley in New Jersey. The composition is an example of Durand’s intense investigation of nature, executed outdoors and with a high degree of finish and detail. The artist meticulously rendered the moss-covered stone, flowering groundcover, and botanical variety. Such small-scale canvases represent some of the earliest exhibited plein air (outdoor) painting in the United States.
Description: Art Institute of Chicago · CC BY 4.0