Asher B. Durand was one of the great leaders of the Hudson River School of landscape painters, and his monthly “Letters on Landscape Painting” column he wrote for The Crayon offered readers of the time invaluable insight into his approach to painting nature. Durand’s advice is just as timely today as it was back then, and in this Plein Air post I share one of Durand’s letters that encouraged painters to sketch from nature as often as possible.
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