通往树林的入口 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	通往树林的入口
品名（英）	The Entrance to a Wood
入馆年号	1977年，1977.182.5
策展部门	美国之翼（The American Wing）
创作者	Robert Walter Weir【1803 至 1889】【美国人】
创作年份	公元 1836
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尺寸	5 3/16 x 6 15/16 英寸 (13.2 x 17.6 厘米)
介绍（中）	这幅画是由美国著名诗人威廉·卡伦·布莱恩特委托创作的，作为他的"森林入口铭文"的插图。诗人对艺术家的建议如下："我曾想过，在一片茂密的树林里开口，一个人影退到大道上，一两棵老树被连根拔起，再加上诗中建议的其他一些配件，就可以了;但我想把这一切都留给你，他们比我更了解这件事。威尔的画完全符合科比的描述。他运用了各种水彩和石墨技术来捕捉科比表达的个性，成功地唤起了一种"同类平静"的感觉，以及逃离世界的"悲伤、犯罪和忧虑"。至于科比在信中提到的"配件"，威尔包括"松鼠，爪子抬起，直立"和"匍匐在地的树干上古老而笨重/从小丘到小丘的粗鲁/或桥接沉没的小溪"。
介绍（英）	This drawing was commissioned by the distinguished American poet William Cullen Bryant as an illustration for his “Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood.” The poet advised the artist as follows: “I have thought that an opening into a thick wood, with a human ﬁgure retiring up the avenue, and an old tree or two uprooted, with some other accessories suggested by the poem, would do; but I wish to leave it all to you, who understand this matter so much better than I do.” Weir's drawing precisely matches Bryant’s description. He employed a variety of techniques in watercolor and graphite to capture the individuality of Bryant’s expression, successfully evoking a sense of “kindred calm,” and of escape from the world’s “sorrows, crimes, and cares.” As for the “accessories” that Bryant mentioned in his letter, Weir included “the squirrel, with raised paws and form erect” and “the old and ponderous trunks of prostrate trees / That lead from knoll to knoll a causey rude / Or bridge the sunken brook.”