Lot 47
47
Asher Brown Durand (1796-1886)
PROPERTY SOLD TO BENEFIT THE VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Asher Brown Durand (1796-1886)

Boonton Falls, New Jersey

Details
Asher Brown Durand (1796-1886)
Boonton Falls, New Jersey
oil on canvas
25 ¼ x 30 1/8 in. (64.1 x 76.5 cm.)
Painted circa 1833.
Provenance
The artist.
Lewis P. Clover, Sr., New Jersey, commissioned from the above, 1833.
Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, by 1960.
Museum of the Holyoke Public Library, Holyoke, Massachusetts, acquired from the above, 1963; sold, Grogan and Company, Boston, Massachusetts, 14 November 1991, lot 12.
Private collection, Boston, Massachusetts.
Alexander Reeves Fine Art, Richmond, Virginia.
Gallery Mayo, Richmond, Virginia.
Private collection, Richmond, Virginia, acquired from the above.
Bequest to the present owner from the above.
Literature
New York Mirror, vol. X, no. 49, June 8, 1833, p. 387.
American Monthly Magazine, vol. I, July 1, 1833, p. 333.
Magazine of American History, vol. XXIV, no. 4, October 1890, p. 321.
Kennedy Quarterly, vol. 2, no. 1, December 1960, p. 26, illustrated.
D.B. Lawall, Asher B. Durand: A Documentary Catalogue of the Narrative and Landscape Paintings, New York, 1978, pp. 24-25, no. 30, fig. 31, illustrated.
E.J. Connell, "American Paintings at the Holyoke Museum, Holyoke, Massachusetts," The Magazine Antiques, vol. CXX, no. 5, November 1981, p. 1185, pl. II, illustrated.
L.S. Ferber, ed., Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape, exhibition catalogue, Brooklyn, New York, 2007, pp. 59, 61, fig. 26, illustrated.
Exhibited
New York, National Academy of Design, Eight Annual Exhibition, 1833, no. 83.

Lot Essay

Boonton Falls, New Jersey, Asher B. Durand’s first commissioned landscape, was painted at the request of Lewis P. Clover, Sr. in 1833. Clover was the proprietor of a framing and artists' supply shop in New York in the 1830s. His son, Lewis P. Clover, Jr. was Durand’s pupil.

When the present work was exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1833, a critic extolled, “This is an exquisite piece of nature; it is in the highest degree fresh and vivid: the foliage has obtained a particularly careful finish, and the white volume of water falls in such a manner that we would almost pronounce it cooling and refreshing to the eye.” (American Monthly Magazine, July 1, 1833, vol. I, p. 333)

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