October, 2000 issue

"In keeping with the Museum's initiative to display more Hudson River School art, we are excited to place on view in Glenview Mansion a work by Durand, one of the four leaders of the Hudson River School," said Laura Vookles, Curator of Collections.

Asher B. Durand's work, Landscape, is painted in oil on canvas and measures 10 1/4 inches high by 16 inches wide. Pending further research, the work by Frank Anderson has been classified as depicting a Hudson River scene near Peekskill. It measures 8 1/8 inches high by 10 1/8 inches wide.

After the death of Thomas Cole, the founder of the Hudson River School of painting, Asher B. Durand became a leader in the landscape painting community. Durand's ideas that landscape paintings should be painted through direct observation and realistically depict their subjects influenced a generation of American painters. Durand believed that nature should be the subject of paintings, rather than a mere backdrop, and his landscapes are serene and luminous.

Durand's Landscape combines two signature aspects of his work, the panoramic distant view with the more detailed foreground of the forest interior, according to Ms. Vookles.

Anderson, a Peekskill resident, was an accomplished painter who regularly showed his works at the National Academy of Design. "Anderson is an important addition to the Museum's collection of Hudson River School paintings, since he was a local artist," said Ms. Vookles.

The paintings are on view in the Sitting Room of Glenview Mansion. The museum is located at 511 Warburton Avenue, Yonkers.