Study of Rocks in Pearson's Ravine
Asher B. Durand American, 1796–1886
mid–1850s
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About this work
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.
- Artist
- Asher B. Durand American, 1796–1886
- Date
- mid–1850s
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Origin
- United States
- Style
- Hudson River School
- Collection
- Arts of the Americas
- Reference
- 2018.364 · Art Institute of Chicago