Kindred Spirits
Kindred Spirits
Artist
Asher B. Durand
(1796 - 1886)
Depicted
Thomas Cole
(1801 - 1848)
Date1849
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions44 x 36 in. (111.8 x 91.4 cm)
Framed: 55 1/4 × 47 3/8 × 5 3/4 in.
Framed: 55 1/4 × 47 3/8 × 5 3/4 in.
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2010.106
Signedl.l., in brown paint: AB Durand 1849
Accession number
2010.106
On View
On viewLabel TextAsher B. Durand painted Kindred Spirits as a memorial to Thomas Cole, who had recently died. Cole stands with a portfolio on an outcropping in the Catskill Mountains. He converses with William Cullen Bryant, a naturalist and poet. Cole’s presence in the scene is one clue that this is an imagined landscape, as if it existed in a heavenly or spiritual realm. For many, including Cole, landscapes provided spaces in which to commune with God and the divine.
Asher B. Durand pintó Almas Gemelas, en memoria de Thomas Cole, quien había fallecido recientemente. Aquí, Cole está de pie, con su portafolio en mano, en un afloramiento rocoso de las Montañas Catskill. Allí conversa con el poeta y naturalista, William Cullen Bryant. La sola presencia de Cole en el paisaje es indicativo de que este es un paisaje imaginario, como si existiera en un reino celestial o espiritual. Para muchos, incluido Cole, los paisajes proveen un espacio en el cual comunicarse con Dios y lo divino.
Inscribedc.l.: BRYANT / COLE
