One ofthefirstAmericanpoems to be widely praisedinEurope, written by William cullenBryant (1794-1878) in 1815, was addressed to that ubiquitousbird, the water-fowl.
Durand's painting "Kindred Spirits" (1849), a depiction of the poet WilliamCullenBryant and the painter Thomas Cole in a Catskills landscape, in a closed auction something New Yorkers considered a betrayal of their artistic and literary patrimony.