The Catskills by Asher Brown Durand

     This painting was by Asher Brown Durand. He was born on August 21, 1796 in Maplewood New Jersey. He got into painting in 1830 and liked sketching the Catskills, Adirondacks, and the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Durand believed that nature was an manifestation of god, and he expressed that sentiment and his views on art in "Letters on Landscape Painting". Durand eventually died on September 17, 1886 in Maplewood, New Jersey.
     This painting has a lot of vertical lines with the trees, and some horizontal lines in the background with the plat surface. This painting has a lot of different colors, most of the colors are green because of the trees, and there is some light blue in the sky. There is no formal shapes in this painting, but there are shapes with the trees and the the hill in the background. There are very rough textures in the painting with the trees, the trees barks, and the grass. There is a soft texture in the sky and the flat surface in the background.
     There is a lot of emphasis on the tall trees in the painting and in the background area with the sky and the hills and plat land too. The trees balances the painting and they show pattern in it as well.