Paintings
Trees on a Rocky Hillside
PaintingLandscape
Details
- Author / creator
- Asher B. Durand (American, 1796–1886)
- Object type
- Painting
- Date or period
- c. 1849
- Dimensions summary
- Framed: 64.8 × 83.2 × 7.9 cm; Unframed: 42.5 × 61.3 cm; Former: 53.5 × 72 × 6.5 cm
- Support
- Canvas
- Paint medium
- Oil
- Place of origin
- United States
- Acquisition method
- Purchase
- Credit line
- Purchased with the National Heritage Memorial Fund, 1968
- Image rights
- Public domain (CC0)
About this object
Durand was one of the first American artists to paint outdoors, rather than in the confines of a studio, which was the longstanding tradition. This outdoor oil sketch of a seemingly random corner of the woods offers an intimate view of a rock outcropping amid lush vegetation. Its small-scale, unusually cropped composition contrasts with the sweeping vistas in many other landscapes of the era.
Materials and technique
Oil on canvas
Signature and marks
Signed lower left: "ABD"
