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    		• Durand, Asher B.,
     
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    		• Landscape -- Forest
     
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    		• Landscape -- River
     
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    		• Landscape -- Mountain
     
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    		• Architecture -- Bridge
     
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    		• Occupation -- Farm
     
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    		• Figure group
     
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    		• Architecture exterior -- Domestic
     
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    		• Landscape -- River
     
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    		• Animal -- Cattle
     
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    		• Painting
     
     
    The First Harvest in the Wilderness, (painting).
    Artist: 
    Durand, Asher B., 1796-1886, painter.
    Title: 
    The First Harvest in the Wilderness, (painting).
    Other Titles: 
    First Harvest, (painting).
    Dates: 
    1855.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image
    Medium: 
    Oil on canvas.
    Dimensions: 
    31 5/8 x 48 1/16 in. (80.3 x 122 cm).
    Inscription: 
    (Lower center:) A B Durand pt. / 1855 (Lower right, on boulder:) GRAHAM signed
    Description: 
    Landscape with buildings, figures, animals, roads, and a stream surrounded by wilderness. In the foreground are cut trees.
    Subject: 
    Landscape -- Forest
    Landscape -- River
    Landscape -- Mountain
    Architecture -- Bridge
    Occupation -- Farm -- Harvesting
    Figure group
    Architecture exterior -- Domestic -- Farmhouse
    Landscape -- River
    Animal -- Cattle
    Object Type: 
    Painting
    Owner: 
    Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York 11238 Accession Number: 97.12
    Provenance: 
    Gift of Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1897.
    References: 
    "The Brooklyn Museum, American Paintings," Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum, 1979.
    "American Paintings in the Brooklyn Museum: artists born by 1876," Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum, 2006, pg. 478.
    Carbone, Teresa A., "An American view: masterpieces from the Brooklyn Museum," Brooklyn, N.Y.: Brooklyn Museum 2006, pg. 58.
    Anderson, Patricia, "The course of empire: the Erie Canal and the New York landscape, 1825-1875, exhibition and catalogue: June 16-August 12, 1984," Rochester, N.Y.: Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, 1984, no. 14.
    Ferber, Linda S., ed., "Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape," New York: Brooklyn Museum in association with D. Giles Limited, London, 2007, pg. 167.
    Lawall, David B., "Asher B. Durand: a documentary catalogue of the narrative and landscape paintings," New York: Garland Pub., 1978, no. 197.
    "A. B. Durand 1796-1886," Montclair, NJ: Montclair Art Museum, 1971, no. 72.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    "American Paintings in the Brooklyn Museum: artists born by 1876," Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum, 2006, pl. 43.
    Carbone, Teresa A., "An American view: masterpieces from the Brooklyn Museum," Brooklyn, N.Y.: Brooklyn Museum 2006, pg. 59.
    Anderson, Patricia, "The course of empire: the Erie Canal and the New York landscape, 1825-1875, exhibition and catalogue: June 16-August 12, 1984," Rochester, N.Y.: Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, 1984, pg. 21.
    "The Brooklyn Museum, American Paintings," Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum, 1979, pg. 13 and pg. 44.
    Ferber, Linda S., ed., "Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape," New York: Brooklyn Museum in association with D. Giles Limited, London, 2007, pl. 60.
    Lawall, David B., "Asher B. Durand: a documentary catalogue of the narrative and landscape paintings," New York: Garland Pub., 1978, fig. 103.
    "A. B. Durand 1796-1886," Montclair, NJ: Montclair Art Museum, 1971, pg. 101.
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAP 35680121
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