National Gallery of Art :: The Collection :: The Stranded Ship
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Overview

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Inscription

lower right on board: A.B.Durand 1844

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Provenance

Commissioned 1844 by Henry S. Mulligan;[1] possibly sold to James Brown [1791-1877], New York.[2] Private collection; (Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York); sold 19 May 2003 to NGA.

[1] A letter of 2 April 1844 from Henry S. Mulligan to Asher B. Durand reads in part: "I enclose my check for three hundred and fifty dollars, the price of your beautiful painting of "the stranded ship" now adorning a room at my house. Allow me here to express the entire satisfaction with which myself and family regard it, and the great pleasure I take in subscribing myself the friend of the gifted Artist." (A.B. Durand Papers, Manuscript Division, New York Public Library; quoted in David B. Lawall, Asher B. Durand: A Documentary Catalogue of the Narrative and Landscape Paintings, New York and London, 1978: 44, no. 90.)

[2] Lawall 1978: 45, no. 91. A list of some of Durand's principal works, published in an 1854 article, includes "The Stranded Ship, in possession of James Brown, N.Y." (E. Anna Lewis, "Art and Artists of America. Asher Brown Durand," Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature and Art XLV, no. 4 (October 1854): 321).

Exhibition History

1844
Exhibition of the New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts, National Academy of Design), New York, 1844, no. 42.
2007
Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape, Brooklyn Museum; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; San Diego Museum of Art, 2007-2008, pl. 43.

Bibliography

1854
Lewis, E. Anna. "Art and Artists of America. Asher Brown Durand." Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature and Art XLV, no. 4 (October 1854): 321.
1894
Durand, John. The Life and Times of A.B. Durand. New York, 1894: 135 (possibly the same painting).
1978
Lawall, David B. Asher B. Durand: A Documentary Catalogue of the Narrative and Landscape Paintings. New York and London, 1978: 44, no. 90.
1988
Kelly, Franklin. Frederic Edwin Church and the National Landscape. Washington, D.C. and London, 1988: 63-64.

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