
by Asher Brown Durand, 1849
American artist Asher Brown Durand painted this tribute to his friend Thomas Cole after Cole's death in 1848. It shows Cole and poet William Cullen Bryant standing on a rocky ledge in the Catskill Mountains, communing with nature.
The painting embodies the philosophy of the Hudson River School: the American wilderness as a spiritual sanctuary, and artists as priests who interpret its meaning. The title comes from a Keats sonnet about the meeting of sympathetic souls.
Long owned by the New York Public Library, the painting was controversially sold in 2005. It now hangs at Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas.
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