Kindred Spirits
Kindred Spirits c1849 by American Painter & Engraver Asher Brown Durand (1796 – 1886) wie diel fan 'e Romantyk Keunstbeweging en wie in ôfstudearre oan 'e Hudson River School. Asher’s main focus was on Lânskipskilderijen.
Kindred Spirits depicts mutual friends American Painter Thomas Cole (1801 – 1848) with American Poet William Cullen Bryant (1794 – 1878) taking in the scenery of a gorge in the Catskills. The painting was commissioned from Asher Brown Durand (1796 – 1886) by the merchant-collector Jonathan Sturges (1802 – 1874); who gifted it to William Cullen Bryant in gratitude for the nature poet’s eulogy to Thomas Cole (Jonathan Sturges mentor), who died unexpectedly on February 11, 1848.
Side Note: If you look carefully you can see the names of Bryant and Cole carved into the tree.
This is a retouched digital art reproduction of a public domain image that is available for purchase online as a opgerold canvas print.
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Durand waard berne yn en stoar úteinlik yn Maplewood, New Jersey (doe neamd Jefferson Village). Hy wie de achtste fan alve bern. Durand syn heit wie in horloazjemakker en in sulversmid.
Durand waard learling oan in graveur út 1812 nei 1817 en letter in gearwurkingsferbân oangien mei de eigner fan it bedriuw, Charles Cushing Wright (1796–1854), dy't him frege om it kantoar fan it bedriuw yn New York te behearjen.
Hy gravearre Ferklearring fan Unôfhinklikens foar John Trumbull tidens 1823, dy't Durand syn reputaasje fêstige as ien fan 'e moaiste graveurs fan it lân.
Durand holp by it organisearjen fan de New York Drawing Association tidens 1825, dy't de National Academy of Design wurde soe; hy soe tsjinje de organisaasje as foarsitter fan 1845 nei 1861.
Asher syn gravueres op bankbiljetten waarden brûkt as de portretten foar Amearika syn earste postsegels, de 1847 searje. Tegearre mei syn broer Cyrus gravearre er ek guon fan 'e opfolgjende 1851 saken.
Syn wichtichste belangstelling feroare fan gravuere nei oaljeferve oer 1830 mei de oanmoediging fan syn beskermhear, Luman Reed. Tidens 1837, hy begeliede syn freon Thomas Cole op in sketsekspedysje nei it Schroon Lake yn 'e Adirondacks Mountains en koart nei't er him begûn te konsintrearjen op lânskipsskilderij.
Hy brocht simmers sketsen yn 'e Catskills, Adirondacks, en de Wite Bergen fan Nij-Hampshire, it meitsjen fan hûnderten tekeningen en oaljesketsen dy't letter waarden ferwurke yn ôfmakke akademystikken dy't holpen om de Hudson River School te definiearjen.
Durand is remembered particularly for his detailed portrayals of trees, rotsen, and foliage. He was an advocate for drawing directly from nature with as much realism as possible. Durand wrote, “Let [the artist] scrupulously accept whatever [natuer] presents him until he shall, in a degree, have become intimate with her infinity…never let him profane her sacredness by a willful departure from truth.”
Like other Hudson River School artists, Durand also believed that nature was an ineffable manifestation of God. He expressed this sentiment and his general opinions on art in his essay “Letters on Landscape Painting” in The Crayon, a mid-19th century New York art periodical. Wrote Durand, “[T]he true province of Landscape Art is the representation of the work of God in the visible creation…”
Durand is noted for his 1849 skilderjen Kindred Spirits dy't kollega Hudson River School-keunstner Thomas Cole en dichter William Cullen Bryant toant yn in lânskip fan Catskills Mountains. Dit waard skildere as earbetoan oan Cole by Cole syn dea tidens 1848, en as in kado oan Bryant.