What would the lions in front of the New York Public Library fetch at auction? This seems a reasonable question, given that the New York Public Library recently sold off one of the most celebrated ...

The New York Public Library used funds raised by selling artworks, including Asher B. Durand’s “Kindred Spirits,” to purchase the papers of the historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., who died in ...

"Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape," the one-man exhibition that goes on view Friday at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, takes its title from its centerpiece -- Durand's ...

It may seem lately every time you walk into a museum you see an Asher Durand exhibition. Thirty years ago, we had the Summer of Sam. This year brings us the Summer of Durand. It’s hardly a bad thing.

A barn Harry Gray photographed during his trip to the Catskill-Hudson area this summer. He said the scene was one of many in the state to inspire him artistically, just like his fourth great-uncle, ...

"Catalogue of American portraits in the New-York Historical Society; volume 2," New Haven: Published for the New York Historical Society by Yale University Press, 1974. Ferber, Linda S., ed., "Kindred ...

"A. B. Durand 1796-1886," Montclair, NJ: Montclair Art Museum, 1971, no. 59. Lawall, David B., "Asher B. Durand: a documentary catalogue of the narrative and ...