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Preview image of work. watercolor on off-white wove paper,  Untitled (landscape) 5649
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1964.20

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Untitled (landscape)

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Artist

John Frederick Kensett (Cheshire, Connecticut, 3/22/1816 - 12/14/1872, New York, New York)

Title

Untitled (landscape)

Creation Date

1850-1872

Century

19th century

Dimensions

4 3/8 in. x 7 in. (11.11 cm x 17.78 cm)

Object Type

watercolor

Creation Place

North America, United States

Medium and Support

watercolor on off-white wove paper

Credit Line

Museum Purchase, Elizabeth B. G. Hamlin Fund

Copyright

Public Domain

Accession Number

1964.20

John Kensett began his artistic career as an engraver but embraced landscape painting while studying and traveling in Europe during the 1840s within a large circle of American artists. A successful painter in oils, he developed his style into one of great simplicity with abstract qualities. As a masterful luminist, he rendered atmospheric effects as pure light and color. By laying down washes, he achieved these effects with a monumentality that belies the small size of this sheet.

Keywords: landscape (representation)