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Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand
and the American Landscape

In conjunction with the exhibition, this new Brooklyn Museum publication features over 120 paintings, engravings and drawings by the artist, including some of the most beautiful and well-known American landscape paintings of the nineteenth century. This richly illustrated volume reproduces works from every aspect of Durand's long career as a major engraver, portrait painter and landscape painter, 100 of which are reproduced in stunning color plates. These include the iconic Kindred Spirits (1849), and The First Harvest in the Wilderness (1855), splendid examples of wilderness, historical, and allegorical landscapes, as well as a generous selection of his famous plein air paintings, the Studies from Nature. Among the highlights of this book is Durand's major work The First Harvest in the Wilderness (1855), the cornerstone of the Brooklyn Museum's American painting collection and one of the first two works of art commissioned by the Brooklyn Institute (forerunner of the Brooklyn Museum) to inaugurate a permanent collection.

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