The century after the United States established its independence saw artists making works that were crucial to forming the country’s cultural identity.

FOR some inscrutable reason, this seems to be the year of Asher B. Durand. A massive exhibition of the 19th-century landscape painter has just opened at the Brooklyn Museum and another – having ...

leads to them, at Maplewood Station, there lives now, well, hale, and hearty, the Nestor of American artists, Asher Brown Durand. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts recently received the generous anonymous gift of Asher B. Durand’s painting Progress (The Advance of Civilization), which was approved by the VMFA Board of Trustees ...