John Frederick Kensett Lake George Painting ID:: 31694 new4/John Frederick Kensett-258745.jpg
Lake George mk75
1869
Huile sur toile
112x168.6cm
John Frederick Kensett Shrewsbury River Painting ID:: 45347 new16/John Frederick Kensett-944969.jpg
Shrewsbury River mk181
New Jersey
1859
Ol auf Leinwand
47x77.5cm
John Frederick Kensett Sonnenuntergang am Meer Painting ID:: 45348 new16/John Frederick Kensett-324227.jpg
Sonnenuntergang am Meer mk181
1872
Ol auf Leinwand
John Frederick Kensett English Landscape Painting ID:: 69168 new23/John Frederick Kensett-673849.jpg
English Landscape Medium oil on cardboard panel
Dimensions 47 X 52.1 cm
John Frederick Kensett English Landscape Painting ID:: 71359 new23/John Frederick Kensett-936664.jpg
English Landscape between 1843(1843) and 1845(1845)
Oil on cardboard panel
47 x 52.1 cm (18.5 x 20.51 in)
John Frederick Kensett Lake George Painting ID:: 71558 new23/John Frederick Kensett-376995.jpg
Lake George ca. 1870(1870)
Oil on canvas
35.6 x 61.2 cm (14.02 x 24.09 in)
John Frederick Kensett English Landscape Painting ID:: 72456 new23/John Frederick Kensett-558468.jpg
English Landscape Date between 1843(1843) and 1845(1845)
Medium Oil on cardboard panel
Dimensions 47 X 52.1 cm (18.5 X 20.51 in)
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John Frederick Kensett Lake George Painting ID:: 72761 new24/John Frederick Kensett-956477.jpg
Lake George Date ca. 1870(1870)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 35.6 X 61.2 cm
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John Frederick Kensett Lake Champlain Painting ID:: 72969 new24/John Frederick Kensett-474853.jpg
Lake Champlain "Lake Champlain," oil on canvas, by the American painter John Frederick Kensett. Yale University Art Gallery, gift of Teresa Heinz in memory of her husband H. John Heinz III, B.A. 1960. Courtesy of Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
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John Frederick Kensett Rock Pool, Bash-Bish Falls Painting ID:: 72971 new24/John Frederick Kensett-658336.jpg
Rock Pool, Bash-Bish Falls "Rock Pool, Bash-Bish Falls," oil on paper (glued to canvas), by the American painter John Frederick Kensett. Yale University Art Gallery, estate of James W. Fosburgh, B.A. 1933, M.A. 1935. Courtesy of Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
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John Frederick Kensett Catskill Waterfall Painting ID:: 72974 new24/John Frederick Kensett-459995.jpg
Catskill Waterfall "Catskill Waterfall," oil on canvas, by the American painter John Frederick Kensett. 18 1/8 in. x 24 1/16 in. Yale University Art Gallery, John Hill Morgan, B.A. 1893, LL.B. 1896, M.A. (Hon.) 1929, Fund. Courtesy of Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
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John Frederick Kensett Lake Champlain Painting ID:: 74799 new24/John Frederick Kensett-495396.jpg
Lake Champlain Lake Champlain," oil on canvas, by the American painter John Frederick Kensett. Yale University Art Gallery, gift of Teresa Heinz in memory of her husband H. John Heinz III, B.A
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John Frederick Kensett Rock Pool Painting ID:: 74801 new24/John Frederick Kensett-968377.jpg
Rock Pool English: "Rock Pool, Bash-Bish Falls," oil on paper (glued to canvas), by the American painter John Frederick Kensett. Yale University Art Gallery, estate of James W. Fosburgh, B.A. 1933, M.A. 1935. Courtesy of Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Date 1865
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John Frederick Kensett Catskill Waterfall Painting ID:: 74802 new24/John Frederick Kensett-783385.jpg
Catskill Waterfall English: "Catskill Waterfall," oil on canvas, by the American painter John Frederick Kensett. 18 1/8 in. x 24 1/16 in. Yale University Art Gallery, John Hill Morgan, B.A. 1893, LL.B. 1896, M.A. (Hon.) 1929, Fund. Courtesy of Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Date 1859
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John Frederick Kensett Lake George Painting ID:: 85553 new25/John Frederick Kensett-447589.jpg
Lake George Date c. 1860(1860)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 55.8 x 86.4 cm (22 x 34 in)
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John Frederick Kensett Trout Fisherman Painting ID:: 85806 new25/John Frederick Kensett-569998.jpg
Trout Fisherman Date 1852(1852)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 49.5 x 40.6 cm (19.5 x 16 in)
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John Frederick Kensett Trout Fisherman Painting ID:: 89988 new25/John Frederick Kensett-857534.jpg
Trout Fisherman 1852(1852)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 49.5 x 40.6 cm (19.5 x 16 in)
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John Frederick Kensett Trout Fisherman Painting ID:: 90435 new25/John Frederick Kensett-799475.jpg
American Hudson River School Painter, 1816-1872
He attended school at Cheshire Academy, and studied engraving with his immigrant father, Thomas Kensett, and later with his uncle, Alfred Dagget. He worked as engraver in the New Haven area until about 1838, after which he went to work as a bank note engraver in New York City. In 1840, along with Asher Durand and John William Casilear, Kensett traveled to Europe in order to study painting. There he met and traveled with Benjamin Champney. The two sketched and painted throughout Europe, refining their talents. During this period, Kensett developed an appreciation and affinity for 17th century Dutch landscape painting. Kensett and Champney returned to the United States in 1847. After establishing his studio and settling in New York, Kensett traveled extensively throughout the Northeast and the Colorado Rockies as well as making several trips back to Europe. Kensett is best known for his landscape of upstate New York and New England and seascapes of coastal New Jersey, Long Island and New England. He is most closely associated with the so-called "second generation" of the Hudson River School. Along with Sanford Robinson Gifford, Fitz Hugh Lane, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Martin Johnson Heade and others, the works of the "Luminists," as they came to be known, were characterized by unselfconscious, nearly invisible brushstrokes used to convey the qualities and effects of atmospheric light. It could be considered the spiritual, if not stylistic, cousin to Impressionism. Such spiritualism stemmed from Transcendentalist philosophies of sublime nature and contemplation bringing one closer to a spiritual truth.