River View with Mountains, 1854
Type:Painting
Size:14.00" x 20.38"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Signed and Dated
Notes:
Signed and dated lower right: JF.K./54
John Frederick Kensett ART FOR SALE
1816 Cheshire, Connecticut - 1872 Long Island, New York. Known for: Landscape and coastal scene painting, engravings.
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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
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 curving shoreline, water and sky a... Read full biography
John Frederick Kensett - Art for Sale (5 available)
New England Coastal Scene with Figures, 1864
Type:Painting
Year:1864
Size:14.25" x 24.18"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Signed and Dated
Notes:
Monogrammed and dated lower right: JF.K. / ‘64.
Waterfall on the Genesee River
Type:Painting
Year:ca. 1850s
Size:10.00" x 18.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Unsigned
Notes:
Provenance: Kensett Estate Sale, pictured. Retains its original ornate frame as seen in the sale's catalogue. Will be included in the John F. Kensett Catalogue Raisonné, begun by John Driscoll. Companion piece is at RISD.
Wood Interior with Rocks–a Study
Type:Painting
Size:12.00" x 18.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Unsigned
Notes:
(unsigned)
Wooded Landscape with Boulders
Type:Painting
Size:14.00" x 20.06"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Signed
Notes:
Monogrammed lower left: JFK