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Asher Brown Durand (1796-1886)
Landscape Study, Dover Plains, New York

oil on canvas
17 x 21½ in. (43.2 x 54.6 cm.)
Painted circa 1847.
Provenance
Alexander Acevedo, New York, by 1976.
M. Knoedler and Co., Inc., New York, by 1978.
William Vareika Fine Arts, Newport, Rhode Island.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1997.
Literature
D.B. Lawall, Asher B. Durand: A Documentary Catalogue of the Narrative and Landscape Paintings, New York, 1978, p. 184, no. 388, fig. 231, illustrated (as Dover Plains, N.Y.).
J.K. Howat, American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1987, p. 107.
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The present painting is likely a study for one of Durand's most important compositions, Dover Plains, Dutchess County, New York of 1848, now in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

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