John Durand (author)
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John, Caroline, and Lucy Maria Durand (1829–1910) were the children of Asher Brown Durand and his first wife, Lucy (née Baldwin). According to a letter in the Durand Papers (Manuscript Division, New York Public Library), this group portrait was painted in the summer of 1832.
John Brown Durand (6 May 1822 – 17 October 1908) was an American art critic, editor, occasional painter[1] and photographer.
Biography
John Durand was born in New York City. Alongside William J. Stillman, he published the art magazine, The Crayon.[2][3] Durand also wrote a biography of his father, the noted engraver and painter Asher B. Durand. He translated several of Hippolyte Taine's works, including Ideal in Art, Italy, Rome and Naples, Italy, Florence and Venice, Philosophy of Art and Art in the Netherlands.[4]
He left a private journal unpublished. Later in life, Durand was a well known member of the American community in Paris.[5]
Selected publications
- "John Trumbull. First Article," The American Art Review, Vol. II, No. 11 (1881), pp. 181–91.
- "John Trumbull. Second and Concluding Article," The American Art Review, Vol. II, No. 12 (1881), pp. 221–30.
- "Taine's French Revolution," The Penn Monthly, Vol. XII (1881), pp. 851–56.
- "Balzac, A Moralist," The Penn Monthly, Vol. XIII (1882), pp. 401–17.
- The Life and Times of A. B. Durand (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1894).
Notes
- ↑ Durand was an amateur member of the National Academy.
- ↑ Callow, James T. (1967). Kindred Spirits: Knickerbocker Writers and American Artists, 1805-1855. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
- ↑ Dyson, Stephen L. (2014). The Last Amateur: The Life of William J. Stillman. Albany, NY.: State University of New York Press.
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- ↑ "John Durand Dead," The New York Times, October 20, 1908, p. 9.
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