Kindred Spirits (painting)
It depicts the painter Thomas Cole, who had died in 1848, and his friend, the poet William Cullen Bryant, in the Catskill Mountains.Rather, it is an idealized memory of Cole's discovery of the region more than twenty years prior, his friendship with Bryant, and his ideas about American nature.The painting was commissioned by New York art collector and advocate Jonathan Sturges as a gift to Bryant who in May 1848 had presented a eulogy for the painter Cole (who had unexpectedly died in February of that year).Bryant described his first impression of the gift to Durand, writing, "I was more delighted with it than I can express, and am under very great obligations to you for having put so much of your acknowledged genius into a work intended for me.By painting Cole and Bryant together in Kindred Spirits, Durand created a visual record of the relationship between the art and literary circles of the early nineteenth century, as well as their common beliefs toward the American landscape and Nature.
Crystal Bridges Museum of American ArtAsher Brown DurandHudson River SchoolThomas ColeWilliam Cullen BryantCatskill MountainsKaaterskill CloveKaaterskill FallsBentonville, ArkansasNew YorkJonathan SturgesJohn KeatsNew York Public LibraryWalmartAlice WaltonpatrimonyendowmentNational Gallery of ArtKaaterskillBill BrysonMarianne MooreCivilization VThe Sweet EastSchüfftan processKeats, JohnBryant, William CullenCole, ThomasList of paintingsLake with Dead TreesView of Fort PutnamExpulsion from the Garden of EdenThe Subsiding of the Waters of the DelugeAqueduct near RomeThe Dead AbelSunset, View on the CatskillThe Titan's GobletThe Course of EmpireSummer Twilight, A Recollection of a Scene in New-EnglandThe OxbowView of Florence from San MiniatoThe Architect's DreamThe Fountain of VaucluseThe Voyage of LifeRoman CampagnaIl PenserosoArch of NeroGenesee SceneryPrometheus BoundCross at SunsetThomas Cole HouseSarah Cole (sister)Thomas Cole MountainAge of EnlightenmentRomanticismVictorianismRealismArtistsCharles BakerWilliam Bliss BakerJohn Dodgson BarrowSusie M. BarstowJulie Hart BeersAlbert Fitch BellowsAlbert BierstadtJames Renwick BrevoortAlfred Thompson BricherWilliam Mason BrownJohann Hermann CarmienckeJohn William CasilearFrederic Edwin ChurchSamuel ColmanJasper Francis CropseyWilliam Moore DavisLockwood de ForestThomas DoughtyRobert S. DuncansonHermann FuechselSanford Robinson GiffordRégis François GignouxEliza Pratt GreatorexDaniel Charles GroseJames McDougal HartWilliam HartWilliam Stanley HaseltineMartin Johnson HeadeHermann Ottomar HerzogThomas HillRansome Gillett HoldridgeGeorge InnessDavid JohnsonJohn Frederick KensettRobert G. L. LeonoriEdmund Darch LewisHomer Dodge MartinGeorge McCordJervis McEnteeMary Blood MellenLouis Rémy MignotCharles Herbert MooreThomas MoranEvelina MountWilliam Sidney MountHarriet Cany PealeWilliam Trost RichardsFerdinand RichardtThomas Prichard RossiterFrancis Augustus SilvaWilliam Louis Sonntag Sr.James Augustus SuydamJesse TalbotWilliam Guy WallMary Josephine WaltersPaul WeberRobert Walter WeirWorthington WhittredgeAlexander Helwig WyantWadsworth AtheneumNew York HistoricalCooper HewittNewington-Cropsey FoundationTuscaloosa Museum of ArtBrooklyn MuseumCatskill Mountain HouseCrawford NotchCroton Point ParkEver Rest