Landscape—Scene from ‘Thanatopsis’ by Asher Brown Durand This 1850 painting was inspired by William Cullen Bryant's poem "Thanatopsis." While the focus on the realism of the landscape is prominent, it also has a mythical undertone to it. This aspect of the painting is revealed by the layers of stories within the landscape which explores human relation to its environment. Landscape—Scene from ‘Thanatopsis’ by Asher Brown Durand This 1850 painting was inspired by William Cullen Bryant's poem "Thanatopsis." While the focus on the realism of the landscape is prominent, it also has a mythical undertone to it. This aspect of the painting is revealed by the layers of stories within the landscape which explores human relation to its environment. Landscape—Scene from ‘Thanatopsis’ by Asher Brown Durand This 1850 painting was inspired by William Cullen Bryant's poem "Thanatopsis." While the focus on the realism of the landscape is prominent, it also has a mythical undertone to it. This aspect of the painting is revealed by the layers of stories within the landscape which explores human relation to its environment.
