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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
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Art Method
- •Banknote Engraving
- •Cartography, Mapmaking, Globes, Topography
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
Art Media
- •Colored Pencil
- •Engraving, Engraver
- •Etching, Etcher
- •Ink
- •Oil Paint
- •Pen and Ink Drawing
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
- •Hudson River School
- •Hudson River School Style of Painting
- •Luminous, Luminism
- •Realist, Representational, Naturalist Style
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
- •Botanics, Plant Life
- •Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Indians, Native Americans
- •Landscape
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
- •Mountain Views, Mountainscapes
- •Pastoral Landscape
- •Seascapes, Seasides
- •Skyscape, Clouds and/or Storms
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Adirondack Mountains
- •Catskill Mountains, New York
- •Colorado Before 1900
- •Europe
- •Hudson River Valley, New York
- •Italy Before World War I
- •Lake George, New York
- •Long Island, New York
- •Minnesota, Upper Mississippi Before 1900
- •Missouri River Valley Before 1900
- •Niagara Falls
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
- •Rocky Mountain School of Painting
- •West Virginia Before 1920
- •White Mountains, New Hampshire
- •Yosemite National Park
Art Association
- •Artists Fund Society
- •Boston Art Club
- •Brooklyn Art Association
- •National Academy of Design, Elected Member
Chronology
- •Early 19th Century Before Civil War
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Art Collection
- •Anschutz Collection
- •Daniel J Terra Collection
- •Gerald Peters Collection
- •Jo Ann & Julian Ganz, Jr. Collection
- •John J. McDonough Collection
- •John Wilmerding Collection
- •Preston Morton Collection
- •Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection
Added Description
- •Expedition Artist of Drawings, Paintings, and/or Photographs
- •Tenth Street Studio Building Resident, New York
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Boston Art Club-
- •Brooklyn Art Association-
- •National Academy of Design, New York
Exhibition of Museum
- •Metropolitan Museum of Art
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts