Columbia County Historical Society
  • VISIT
    • ROAD TRIPS
    • Dutch Farming Heritage Trail
    • School Classes -VIRTUAL >
      • Oral Histories - Schoolhouse
      • Mahicans @Van Alen Property
      • Classroom Lesson Plans
    • Historic Properties >
      • Ichabod Crane Schoolhouse >
        • Eleanor Roosevelt Visits Ichabod Crane
      • Vanderpoel 'House of History'
      • Luykas Van Alen House
    • Group Tours
  • LIBRARY
    • Research Request
    • Resources | Archives
    • LIBRARY Reading Room
    • Local Historians & Historical Societies
  • EXHIBITIONS
    • PERMANENT COLLECTION
    • 100 Years of Collecting
    • New York Portraits
    • HandMade Tools
    • Daguerreotypes
    • Federal Style
    • Columbia County Schoolhouses
    • Caned Construction
    • Washington Irving & Ichabod Crane
    • Delft Ware
    • Floral Motif
    • Shaker Baskets
    • A Study of Style
    • Elegance & Strength
    • Electric Park
    • Fragments of the Past
    • Runway Style: Historic Fashion in Miniature
    • Supreme Sacrifice: WWI
    • Civil War Panorama: Columbia County
  • GIVE
    • MEMBERSHIP
    • DONATE NOW
    • Annual Appeal 2020
    • PLANNED GIVING
    • GivingTuesday2020
    • SPONSORSHIPS
    • Ichabod Crane Schoolhouse Rejuvenation
    • Day of History
    • VOLUNTEER
    • Business Supporters
    • JOIN OUR BOARD
  • ABOUT
    • WEDDINGS | EVENTS
    • JOIN OUR BOARD
    • SPONSORSHIPS
    • CAREERS
    • Contact
    • LOGO
    • History & Heritage Magazine >
      • ADVERTISE
  • EVENTS
    • Helluva Town Book Talk
    • First Columbians - 2020
    • Gallery of Wreaths 2020
    • Winter LECTURE Lighthouses #2 2020
    • Winter LECTURE Impeachment
    • First Columbians - 2019
    • First Columbians - 2018
    • First Columbians - 2017
    • First Columbians 2016
    • Birthday Party | Annual Meeting
    • Below Stairs 2015
    • Headless Horseman visits Ichabod Crane Schoolhouse
  • SHOP
  • SHOP
  • >
  • Books & Catalogues
  • >
  • The Life & Times of Asher B. Durand

The Life & Times of Asher B. Durand

SKU:
$19.25
$19.25
Unavailable
per item

Written by John Durand

Perhaps best known as the painter of Kindred Spirits, the quintessential Hudson River School painting, Asher B. Durand (1796 to 1886) was one of the most important American artists of the nineteenth century, a central figure as an artist, as a founder of art institutions, and as the acknowledged leader of the American landscape school from his election as president of the National Academy of Design in 1845 until his death at the age of ninety. Durand's six-decade career spanned the period from the earliest efforts of artists and writers to construct a national cultural identity on through the mid-century triumph and, later, the eclipse of what is now known as the Hudson River School.

In this biography first published in 1894, Durand's son John reconstructed the artist's life from family records and documents and his own recollections, creating what has become an essential source of biographical data on Durand, his paintings, his engravings, and his patrons. This edition features a new introduction by Linda S. Ferber, vice president and museum director for the New York Historical Society.

Black Dome Press Corp.

Softcover, 256 pages

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
2 available
Add to Cart
The Columbia County Historical Society is supported in part by the County of Columbia
with the support of Matt Murell, Chairman of the Board at the Columbia County Board of Supervisors.

Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
The Columbia County  Historical Society
is ​a private 501 (c )(3) nonprofit organization
Chartered by the  Board of Regents
State Education Department, The University of the State of New York
Copyright © 2021,  Columbia County Historical Society
PO Box 311, 5 Albany Avenue,  Kinderhook, NY 12106
​ 518 758 9265   |  ops@cchsny.org
Picture

Picture
Museum Association of New York
  • TripAdvisor