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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