The Beeches
Artist: Asher Brown Durand (American, 1796–1886)
Original Dimensions: 60 3/8" x 48 1/8"
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
About Artwork: (1845) "Durand’s forest scene encourages a peaceful communing with a picturesque landscape, immersing the viewer’s senses in nature’s presence: the smell of damp earth, soft moss against rough tree bark, rustling leaves, the hooves of sheep, and warm golden sunlight that leads the visitor along a path. A critic noted Durand’s scenes were “quiet and gentle,” a testament to the artist’s ability to capture meditative experiences in nature. Such vertically oriented compositions that embraced this pastoral calm departed from the sweeping grandeur of American Romantic landscape paintings by artists like Thomas Cole." - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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