Saturday, November 2, 2013

All Souls

Below are my photos of a painting by Asher B. Durand in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Landscape (Thanatopsis), 1850.

Durand painted this as a memorial to his close friend and fellow painter Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River School of painters.  Cole died a sudden and untimely death in 1848 at the age of forty seven.  Durand's painting was inspired by a poem by William Cullen Bryant, a mutual friend of Durand and Cole, titled "Thanatopsis."


















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3 comments:

  1. JCFNovember 2, 2013 at 6:29 PM

    So that a burial, in the detail? [I swear, I only saw a landscape at first]

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  2. CounterlightNovember 3, 2013 at 8:56 AM

    That is indeed a funeral.

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  3. William R. MacKayeNovember 13, 2013 at 11:52 PM

    William Cullen Bryant wrote most of "Thanatopsis" when he was 17. He never wrote another poem half as good.

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