The Fundación Juan March, in association with the New-York Historical Society, presents the exhibition The American Landscapes of Asher B. Durand (1796-1886). Edited under the guidance of Dr. Linda S. Ferber, leading Durand scholar, this catalogue accompanies the first retrospective devoted to this important nineteenthcentury artist outside of the United States. Together with his close friend Thomas Cole (1801-1848), Durand was a leader and mentor of the Hudson River School, the prominent art movement formed by a group of mid-nineteenth-century American landscape painters. With 140 works, including oil paintings, drawings, and engravings, and complemented by works by his contemporaries and followers, this volume and the exhibition it accompanies showcase Durand’s luminous talent as well as the subject matter he developed throughout his prolific career: portraiture, genre subjects, and chiefly landscape painting. With essays by Drs. Linda S. Ferber, Barbara Novak, Barbara Dayer Gallati, Marilyn S. Kushner, Roberta J. M. Olson, Rebecca Bedell, Kimberly Orcutt, and a chronology by Sarah Barr Snook.