About this artwork
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.
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Status
- On View, Gallery 170
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Department
- Arts of the Americas
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Artist
- Asher Brown Durand
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Title
- Study of Rocks in Pearson's Ravine
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1850–1859
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Medium
- Oil on canvas
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Dimensions
- 61 × 45.7 cm (24 × 18 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Jamee J. and Marshall Field
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Reference Number
- 2018.364
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/220730/manifest.json