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 Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 8:03 am Post subject: William Cullen Bryant & Thomas |
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William Cullen Bryant & Thomas
There was a reason Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton bought this painting for $35MM-the most ever paid Joan Miro paintings for a painting by an American artist-and brought it back to Benton to found her museum. Entitled Kindred Spirits, it depicts the two spiritual fathers of Central Park overlooking the Katterskill Clove in upstate New York. On the left is William Cullen Bryant, Claude Monet paintings editor of the New York Evening Post; on the right is Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River School of painting. It was Cole who returned Americans attention to the native beauty of their land, and Bryant who led the charge to create a park accessible to all-a ‘Central Park' -where New Yorkers could commune with nature Franz Marc paintings without leaving Manhattan. Inspired by Bryant’s eulogy of Cole at his funeral in 1848, Painter Asher Durand gave this painting to Bryant whose daughter Julia donated it to the New York Public Library in 1904. There it hung for a century until the NYPL auctioned it off to raise money for restoration.
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