Asher B. Durand Works Online
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Original works by Asher B. Durand available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio
The Trysting Tree, 1868
Asher B. Durand at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
2 works online
Asher B. Durand at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 
Watercolor collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
Asher B. Durand at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
5 works by Asher B. Durand
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Albany Institute of History and Art, New York
An Old Man's Reminiscences
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe
The Hunter, 1846
Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University, Indiana
Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Utah
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
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Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
A new museum which, when we last checked, had not yet opened to the public
Kindred Spirits, 1849
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
A Reminiscence of the Catskill Clove, 1858
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Massachusetts
Catskill Meadows in Summer, 1861
Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York
Hudson River Looking toward the Catskills, 1847
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
View near Rutland, Vermont, 1837
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York
Landscape
Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee
A Symbol, 1856
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia
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Maryland State Archives
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Cows in the Valley, Watering
Genesee Oaks
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Museum of the City of New York
Dance on the Battery in the Presence of Peter Stuyvesant, 1838
Museum of the National Academy of Design, New York City
4 works online
New-York Historical Society
Dozens of paintings catalogued
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Rocky Cliff, ca.1860
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, New York
Woodland Interior, ca.1855
San Diego Museum of Art, California
Landscape-Composition: In The Catskills, 1848
San Diego Museum of Art, California
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Asher B. Durand at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Springfield Museum of Art, Ohio
St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, Vermont
Landscape with Rocks
The Huntington Library, California
The Newark Museum, New Jersey
Landscape, 1849
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
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USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Kaaterskill Clove, 1850
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Virtual Museum of Canada
Dover Plain, Dutchess County, New York, 1848
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Asher B. Durand in the Art Renewal Center
Asher B. Durand in the Artchive
Asher B. Durand at CGFA
Asher B. Durand at The Athenaeum 
49 works online by Durand
Web Gallery of Art
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
The History Project at U.C. Davis
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
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Miscellaneous Sites:
The Western hero: Visions and Revisions
White Mountain Art and Artists
Why We Think Nature is Beautiful
Illustrated article by Eugene C. Hargrove
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Asher B. Durand 
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
Progress (The Advance of Civilization), 1853
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
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