
Collection Online as of January 30, 2023
(American, 1796–1886)
Oil on canvas
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1968.21
206 American Landscape
Durand was one of the first American artists to paint outdoors, rather than in the confines of a studio, which was the longstanding tradition. This outdoor oil sketch of a seemingly random corner of the woods offers an intimate view of a granite outcropping amid lush vegetation. Its small-scale, unusually cropped composition contrasts with the sweeping vistas in many other landscapes of the era.