Study of Rocks in Pearson's Ravine
Asher Brown Durand
1850–1859
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 61 × 45.7 cm (24 × 18 in.)
- Genre
- painting
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
painting19th centurycanvasoil on canvasoiloil paint (paint)painting (image making)painting techniqueslandscapesHudson River School
About
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.
