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19th Century American and Western Art

JOHN FREDERICK KENSETT (1816-1872)

Los 406

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Los 406 | JOHN FREDERICK KENSETT (1816-1872)

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$ 60 000 – 80 000

JOHN FREDERICK KENSETT (1816-1872)
Storm, Western Colorado
oil on canvas
18 ¼ x 28 in. (46.4 x 71.1 cm.)
Painted in 1870.

Provenance

The artist.
Estate of the above.
Thomas Kensett, brother of the artist, acquired from the above, 1872.
(Possibly) New York, Association Hall, 24-29 March 1873.
(Probably) Sarah Kensett Kellogg, New York.
James R. Kellogg, New York.
Old Print Shop, New York, 1945.
Florence Scott Libbey, Toledo, Ohio.
Gift to the present owner from the above, 1945.

Literature

B. Cowdrey, "Painter of the Pure Landscape," American Collector, vol. XIV, February 1945, p. 13, illustrated.
M.B. Cowdrey, "The Return of John F. Kensett," Portfolio, vol. IV, February 1945, frontispiece illustration.
F.W. Kilbourne, "A White Mountain Artist of the Years Ago," Appalachia, December 1947.
C.F. Gunther, "Nature and her Moods," Toledo Museum of Art News, vol. VIII, no. 2, Summer 1965, n.p., illustrated.
L.E. Levick, "Whitney's All-American Art," Palm Beach Life, vol. LXI, no. 10, November 1968, p. 92, illustrated.
N. Moure, "Five Eastern Artists Out West," American Art Journal, vol. V, no. 2, November 1973, p. 17, fig. 2, illustrated.
J.G. Sweeney, The Artist-Explorers of the American West, unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Indiana University, 1975, pp. 293-96, fig. 17, illustrated.
S.E. Strickler, The Toledo Museum of Art: American Paintings, Toledo, Ohio, 1979, pp. 67-68, 139, pl. 42, illustrated.
W.H. Truettner, ed., The West as America: Reinterpreting Images of the Frontier, 1820-1920, exhibition catalogue, Washington, D.C., 1991, pp. 34, 36, fig. 28, illustrated.
J. Simon, A.Y. Smith, Images of Contentment: John Frederick Kensett and the Connecticut Shore, Waterbury, Connecticut, 2001, p. 33.

Exhibited

New York, Old Print Shop, John F. Kensett, N.A.: Exhibition of American Landscapes, 1945.
Oberlin, Ohio, Allen Memorial Art Museum, American Artists Discover America, February 1946, no. 29.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Columbus, Ohio, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts; Houston, Texas, Museum of Fine Arts; Jacksonville, Florida, Cummer Gallery of Art, John Frederick Kensett, 1816-1876, September 10, 1968-1969, n.p., no. 43, illustrated (as Storm Over Western Colorado).Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, Heritage and Horizon: American Painting, 1776-1976, 1976, no. 12.
Buffalo, New York, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts; Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art; Mansfield, Ohio, Mansfield Art Center, The American Landscape, 1981, no. 4.
Worcester, Massachusetts, Worcester Art Museum; Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, John Frederick Kensett: An American Master, March 24, 1985-January 19, 1986, pp. 134-35, 201, pl. 36, illustrated.
New York, IBM Gallery of Science and Art, American Paintings from the Toledo Museum of Art, July 22-September 13, 1986, n.p., fig. 4, illustrated.

Künstler:	John Frederick Kensett (1816 - 1872)
Angewandte Technik:	Öl auf Leinwand
Kategorie des Auktionshauses:	Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Gemälde

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