# Kindred Spirits [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [DURAND, Asher Brown]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 117 x 92 cm ## Commentary Asher B Durand, who was a leading figure in the 'Hudson River School' of American landscapists, painted Kindred Spirits in memory of his fellow painter Thomas Cole \(1801-1848\). He painted Cole and the poet William Cullen Bryant standing on a rock over a ravine in the Catskills sharing a moment of communion with the visible world and its creator. The painting was owned by the New York Public Library until May 2005 when it was sold at a Sotheby's auction for about $35 million to a private collector. ## Related artworks - [A Stream in the Wood]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()