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National Collection of Fine Arts
Durand Landscape

Asher Brown Durand, considered one of the founders of American landscape painting, is one of the three most important painters of the 19th Century. In November 1978, the National Collection of Fine Arts, which had no work by this artist, acquired a major landscape painting "Dover Plain, Dutchess County, New York." Painted in 1848, it was first exhibited that same year, gaining immediate recognition, at the National Academy of Design. A reviewer for Literary World wrote "'The Scene in Dutchess County' is, we think, one of the best pictures he (Durand) has ever exhibited." Today, the painting, an oil on canvas measuring 48 x 64 inches, remains as one of the outstanding examples of the artist's works from his most important period (1845-1855).

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