John Frederick Kensett ART FOR SALE

Portrait of John Frederick Kensett: Courtesy: Albany Institute

1816 Cheshire, Connecticut - 1872 Long Island, New York. Known for: Landscape and coastal scene painting, engravings.

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The following is from The New York Times, July 4, 2001, www.nytimes.com/2001/07/04/nyregion/04HUDS.html. The Final Strokes Are Kensett's Best . By GRACE GLUECK . With Eatons Neck, Long Island, the Luminist landscape painter John Frederick Kensett did not have far to go for subject matter. In the late 1860's he bought land and built a studio on an island near Darien, Conn., off the shore of Long Island Sound. And in the summer of 1872, he painted about 40 views, including many of the points along the Sound and the Connecticut shore. As a group, they are known as the "Last Summer's Work," since he died in December of that year at age 56. Of them, Eatons Neck is the best known and the most haunting. It is a masterly distillation in which the... Read full biography

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View of the Genesee River

Type:Painting

Size:10.00" x 18.00"

Medium:Oil

Signed:Unsigned

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Provenance: Kensett Estate Sale, 1873, pictured in the sale. Will be included in the John F. Kensett Catalogue Raisonné, begun by John Driscoll Companion piece is at RISD.