KENSETT, JOHN FREDERICK

kĕnˈsət, 1816–72, American landscape painter, of the Hudson River school, b. Cheshire, Conn. He began painting while working as an engraver and in 1840 went to England to study. He spent some time in Paris and in Düsseldorf before going (1845) to Rome, where he became a popular member of the American art colony and perfected his technique. After a few years he returned (1847) to the United States and the following year became a member of the National Academy of Design. His delicately colored and poetic luminist landscapes (see luminism), such as the well-known Eatons Neck, Long Island (1872), brought him fame and wealth. The Metropolitan Museum, of which he was a founding trustee, has several of his paintings. There are others in the Corcoran Gallery and the New York Public Library.

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The Recollections of John Ferguson Weir, Director of the Yale School of the Fine Arts, 1869-1913
Book by Theodore Sizer; The New-York Historical Society, 1957
Subjects: Weir, John F--(John Ferguson)--B. 1841
...McEntee, Dr. Weir Mitchell, 14 Kensett, 15 Whittredge, 16 Launt...poet, novelist. 15 John Frederick Kensert 1816- 1872 , landscape...Thompson, and a few painters-- Kensett, Sanford Gifford and Eastman...
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The Autobiography of John C. Van Dyke: A Personal Narrative of American Life, 1861-1931
Book by Peter Wild, John C. Van Dyke; University of Utah Press, 1993
Subjects: Art Historians--United States--Biography, Van Dyke, John Charles--1856-1932
...167 The Mountain Book--John Muir--Rabbit Drives--Pierre Loti--The Raritan--At Rutgers--W R. Thayer and Frederick Keppel--Oregon-- The Grand Canyon--Wm...beards had done for them. In those days Frederick T. Freylinghuysen, the United States...
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Memoirs of John Adams Dix - Vol. 2
Book by Morgan Dix; Harper & Brothers, 1883
Subjects: Dix, John A--(John Adams)--1798-1879
...dear Sir, sincerely yours, JOHN A. DIX." The following is...Legislature on their way to Frederick City, and farther directed...obedient servant, " Signed JOHN A. DIX, Major-general commanding...respectfully, your obedient servant, " JOHN A. DIX." The following somewhat...
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The Hudson River School and the Early American Landscape Tradition: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, April 17 to May 18, 1945
Book by Frederick A. Sweet; Art Institute of Chicago, 1945
Subjects: Landscape Painters--United States, Landscape Painting--19th Century--United States--Exhibitions, Painting, American--Exhibitions
...American Academy of Fine Arts. John Trumbull, who then headed this...friends and pupils, Casilear, Kensett, and Rossiter. In London...Durand, Beard, Rossiter, Kensett, and Nathaniel Parker Willis...Life No. 93 , painted for Frederick J. Betts of Newburg, New...
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Praeger Picture Encyclopedia of Art: A Comprehensive Survey of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture and Crafts, Their Methods, Styles and Technical Terms, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
Book by Frederick A. Praeger; F.A. Praeger, 1958
Subjects: Art--Dictionaries, Art--History
...drawing 1503 3. GRUNFWALD, St John. Study for the Tauberbischofsheim Crucifixion...salesman for the value of 58 heads of St John the Baptist. ALTAR Lat. alta ara...illustrator of Dickens, Ainsworth, Lever and John Leech. The rural beauties of Birket Foster...
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journal articles on: Kensett John Frederick  - 4 results

 
 
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The End of the American Century: Current Scholarship on the Art of the United States
Journal article by John Davis; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 85, 2003
Subjects: Art, American--Research, Copley, John Singleton--Works, Homer, Winslow--Works, Luce, Henry R.--Criticism, interpretation, etc., O'Keeffe, Georgia--Works, Peale, Charles Willson--Works, Sargent, John Singer--Works, Shahn, Ben--Works, West, Benjamin--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...Church, Stuart Davis, Frederick Frieseke, Daniel Garber...Hassam, Winslow Homer, John F. Kensett, Willard Metcalf, Theodore...residents: Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and Benjamin...of Sanford Gifford and John Kensett. In her discussion of...
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Dissertations in Progress by Subject
Journal article; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 86, 2004
...Nineteenth-Century Taste for the Paintings of John Frederick Kensett" (UC Berkeley, M. Lovell) WACKS...The Possibilities of Print: John Constable. English Landscape...Mirror of a Christian Prince: Frederick the Wise and Art Patronage at...
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Culture/cultivation: Thoughts on Painting the Landscape
Journal article by Altoon Sultan; Art Journal, Vol. 57, 1998
Subjects: Landscape painting, American--Personal narratives, Landscape--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Painters--Personal narratives
...light, calm horizontal structure, and lack of touch in the paintings of Martin Johnson Heade, Fitz Hugh Lane, and John Frederick Kensett give their work a transcendent quality. Nature is seen as an aspect of God. I find the ordinary subject matter...
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Vision and Revision: International Histories of American Art
Journal article by Jochen Wierich; American Studies International, Vol. 39, 2001
Subjects: American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America, (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Art criticism--History, Art, American--History, Born, Wolfgang--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Hagen, Oskar--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Hughes, Robert--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Neumeyer, Alfred--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Novak, Barbara--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...Martin Johnson Heade, John Frederick Kensett, and Fitz Hugh Lane. In...comparison focuses on Kensetts Coast Scene with Figures...art, Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley, who...such as West biographer John Gait. Wind had assessed...


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magazine articles on: Kensett John Frederick  - 3 results

 
 
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States of Grace: Barbara Novak on "American Sublime"
Magazine article by Barbara Novak; Artforum International, Vol. 40, January 2002
Subjects: Cole, Thomas--Exhibitions, Painting, Modern--Exhibitions
...Martin Johnson Heade, and John Frederick Kensett offer classic examples...works of Heade, Lane, and Kensett are sufficiently different...British predecessors as John Martin (for Cole) and...French viewers walked past John Singleton Copleys magnificent...
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Landscapes to Be Proud Of
Magazine article by Joan C. Frank; School Arts, Vol. 91, February 1992
Subjects: Landscape painting--Study and teaching, Painting--Study and teaching
...American artists which includes artists like Washington Allston, Albert Bierstadt, Frederick Church, Thomas Cole, Jasper Cropsey, Asher B. Durand, George Inness, John Kensett, and Fitzhugh Lane. These artists, who painted from 1825 to 1870, believed...
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American Sublime
Magazine article by Michael J. Lewis; New Criterion, Vol. 21, September 2002
Subjects: Art, American--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Hudson River school of landscape painting--History
...Luminists--the triumvirate of Martin Johnson Heade, John Kensett, and Fitz Hugh Lane--who otherwise seem to have so little...sentimentality of the Hudson River School cloying. Church, Kensett, and Gifford each saw demand for their work fall. Even...


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encyclopedia articles on: Kensett John Frederick  - 4 results

 
 
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Kensett, John Frederick
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
KENSETT, JOHN FREDERICK ken s t, 1816 72, American landscape painter, of the Hudson River school , b. Cheshire, Conn. He began painting while working...
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Cheshire , Town, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...Conn., in a farm area; settled 1695, inc. 1780. It is chiefly residential, with some light industry. The painter John Frederick Kensett was born in Cheshire. ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright 2007, Columbia...
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Luminism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...atmosphere it is sometimes linked to impressionism . Its practitioners included Frederick E. Church (in his early career), Fitz Hugh Lane , John F. Kensett , Sanford R. Gifford , and Martin Johnson Heade . They painted majestic landscapes...
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American Art
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...Doughty and Thomas Cole led the Hudson River school , which was continued by Asher B. Durand , John F. Kensett , and Frederick E. Church . The land and peoples west of the Mississippi were described in paintings by George Catlin...


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