LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

39.49 in. (100.30 cm.) (height) by 59.49 in. (151.10 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'AB Durand/1848' (lower left)

Exhibited:

New York, National Academy of Design, 24th Annual Exhibition, April 3-July 7, 1849, p. 138, no. 160. Troy, New York, Young Men’s Association, Second Annual Exhibition, 1859, no. 6 (as Catskills Clove). Brooklyn, New York, Brooklyn Museum; Washington, D.C., Smithsonian American Art Museum; San Diego, California, San Diego Museum of Art, Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape, March 3, 2007-April 27, 2008, pp. 159-61, pl. 55, illustrated. Ithaca, New York, Cornell University, Johnson Museum of Art, 2016, on loan.

Literature:

"National Academy Review," The Knickerbocker, New York, vol. XXXIII, May 5, 1849, p. 470, no. 160. Bulletin of the American Art-Union, May 1849, p. 14. E. A. Lewis, “Art and Artists of America, Asher B. Durand,” Graham’s Magazine, vol. XLV, no. 4, October 1854, p. 321. D.B. Lawall, Asher B. Durand: A Documentary Catalogue of the Narrative and Landscape Paintings, New York, 1978, no. 134, pp. 76-77.

Provenance:

John Lawrence Schoolcraft, Richmond, Virginia. Caroline Canfield Schoolcraft Beattie, Richmond, Virginia, wife of the above. Private collection, by descent. Sotheby’s, New York, 3 December 1987, lot 33, sold by the above. Alexander Gallery, New York. Acquired by the late owner from the above, 1988.