Dover+Plains,+Dutchess+County,+New+York

Date: 1848
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1978/1978.126_1a.jpg?itok=6d3sLXNW width="364" height="256" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/dover-plains-dutchess-county-new-york-7642"]] || Title: **Dover Plains, Dutchess County, New York**

Artist: **Asher B. Durand** Born: Jefferson Village, New Jersey 1796 Died: Maplewood, New Jersey 1886

Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 42 1/2 x 60 1/2 in. (107.9 x 153.7 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Thomas M. Evans and museum purchase through the Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program

Accession: 1978.126 || In this gently lit, pastoral landscape, cows graze near a party of berry-pickers who have climbed a cluster of boulders. The panoramic view reveals distant fields, cultivated and bounded by rows of trees and forested areas. The standing figure, surveying the calm and peaceful vista, represents the optimistic future for the citizenry at mid-century.
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