Monument Mountain, Berkshires

probably 1850

Asher Brown Durand American, 1796 - 1886

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American, Level 2, West Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Monument Mountain, Berkshires

Artwork Date probably 1850

Artist Asher Brown Durand

Life Dates 1796 - 1886

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 28 × 42 inches (71.1 × 106.7 cm) Framed: 43 1/4 × 57 5/8 × 6 3/8 inches (109.9 × 146.4 × 16.2 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department American Art before 1950

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 39.6

Markings

Signed Signed, lower left corner: A. B. Durand

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Provenance

1938, dealer, Dalzell Hatfield (Los Angeles, California, USA)

1939-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Burroughs, Clyde H. "Monument Mountain, Berkshires, by Asher B. Durand." Bulletin of the DIA 20, 1 (October 1940): pp. 5-7.

Richardson, Edgar P., ed. Catalogue of Paintings, Second Ed. Detroit, 1944, p. 41.

The Hudson River School and the Early American Landscape Tradition. Exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, 1945, p. 47, no. 98.

American Painting 1804-1954. Exh. cat., The Ohio University. Athens, 1954, no. 9

The Great Decade in American Writing 1850-1860. Exh. cat., The American Academy of Arts and Letters. New York, 1954, pp. 28-29, no. 159.

American Landscape Painters 1800-1960. Exh. cat., The Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences. Norkfolk, VA, 1961, no. 11.

Huntington, David C. The Landscapes of Frederic Edwin Church. New York, 1966, pp. 24-25 (fig. 5). [dated as ca. 1851]

Wright, Cuthbert. Fanny Kemble and the Lovely Land. New York, 1974, p. 148 (ill.).

Lawall, David. Asher Brown Durand: A Documentary Catalogue of the Narrative and Landscape Paintings. New York, 1978, p. 1978, no. 287. [dated as ca. 1869]

Shaw, Nancy Rivard, et al. American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Volume 1: Works by Artists Born Before 1816. New York, 1991, pp. 81-83 (ill.).

Ullmann, Helen Schatvet, CG, FASG, ed. Western Massachusetts Families in 1790, vol. 4. Boston, 2019, (ill. on cover).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Asher Brown Durand, Monument Mountain, Berkshires, probably 1850, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Fund, 39.6.