Asher Brown Durand climbed into the Catskills in July 1857 and spent part of the day drawing a single tree. The inscription - "Catskill Mts. July 24th" - turns the sketch into something almost diary-like: proof of one quiet encounter between an artist and a landscape. Durand believed painters should study nature directly, patiently, without spectacle. In this "Tree Study", you can feel that philosophy happening line by line - bark carefully observed, branches dissolving upward into light. Quelle: meisterdrucke.com











