Abstract
OF the many interests which William Cullen Bryant maintained in the intellectual life of his day, perhaps the least understood is his concern with contemporary American art. For although the main facts of his personal association with the landscape artists have long been known,' critics have been slow to recognize the important relation of his artistic interests to his verse.2 During the last ten years, however, with the renewed interest in American landscape painting, the significance of Bryant's artistic connections has slowly become apparent.' For Bryant was not only the friend of many of the Hudson River painters; he also shared with them a general view of life and agreed wholeheartedly with their aesthetic principles. So highly did he regard their work that on more than one occasion he presented their claims for recognition in the pages of the Evening Post,4 while they in turn welcomed him into their society and appointed him in 1826 to a professorship in the newly founded National Academy of Design.5 The personal associations thus
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