TitleAsher Brown Durand
Artist
Henry Kirke Brown
(American, 1814 - 1886)
Date1847
MediumMarble
DimensionsOverall: 26 1/2 × 18 × 11 in.
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, Gift of John Durand, 1887
Object number14-S
Label TextHenry Kirke Brown wrote to E. P. Prentice early in 1847 that he was "now modeling a head of Durand, nearly finished." The completed work was shown at the Academy annual exhibition of 1849, the sole representative that year of Brown's work. That same year, a writer for the Bulletin of the American Art-Union noticed the completed bust among Brown's work on view in his Brooklyn studio, however, Brown evidently gave it to Durand, for it was among his possessions at his death in 1886. The following year, Durand's son, John, wrote Daniel Huntington, then president of the Academy, that he was sending the bust as a gift, "as a memorial of his [Asher Durand's long] connection with the institution and as a token of his sympathy for his professional brethren who always treated him with so much consideration."Collections
- Artist Portrait Highlights from the Collection
[c. 1855]
