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John Frederick Kensett Works Online
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Original works by John Frederick Kensett available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW! (There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW! Watercolor collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW! Paintings collection online
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Includes a biography of the artist
John Frederick Kensett at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio The Temple of Neptune, Paestum
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio Mt. Mansfield from Malletts Bay, Lake Champlain
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable) Untitled (landscape), watercolor
Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University, Indiana
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City (Undocumented Feature: In many cases the raw JPG image is much larger than displayed on the screen)
Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Connecticut Fourteen Mile Island, Lake George
Canton Museum of Art, Ohio Esopus Creek
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Cummer Museum of Art, Jacksonville, Florida Marine View of Beacon Rock, Newport Harbor, 1864
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Massachusetts Mount Washington from the Valley of Conway, 1851
Everhart Museum, Scranton, Pennsylvania Mt. Washington in the White Mountains, 1856
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
Five College Museums Collections Database, Massachusetts
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee View at Conway, ca.1850
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi
Long Island Museum of American Art, History and Carriages, Stony Brook, New York (Click on the object number for the artwork title & other information)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia (Note: Click the title to view the artwork details, not the thumbnail image.)
Maryland State Archives
Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York A Showery Day, Lake George
Middlebury College Museum of Art, Vermont Landscape, Village in Distance
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin Lakes of Killarney
Museum of the National Academy of Design, New York City 5 works online
New-York Historical Society 6 paintings online
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Palmer Museum of Art at Pennsylvania State University Flinstone, New Hampshire, 1850
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, New York Sunset over the Catskills, 1855
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, New York Mount Chocorua, 1857
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, New York Reminiscences of the Catskill Mountains, 1853
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska Silver Flume Waterfall
Springfield Museum of Art, Ohio
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago NEW! Almy Pond, Newport, ca.1857 Near Newport, Rhode Island, 1872
The Huntington Library, California
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid (Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive (database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
John Frederick Kensett at The Art Renewal Center
John Frederick Kensett at The Artchive
John Frederick Kensett at The Athenaeum 132 works online by Kensett
John Frederick Kensett in the Web Gallery of Art
California State University WorldImages Database
John Frederick Kensett at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW! Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
The History Project at U.C. Davis
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Miscellaneous Sites:
White Mountain Art and Artists
Why We Think Nature is Beautiful Illustrated article by Eugene C. Hargrove
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on John Frederick Kensett Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum) Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
The New York Observer "In Landscape Paintings, Kensett Found Clarity", article by Hilton Kramer
Multimedia:
Antiques Roadshow (PBS) Appraisals "19th-Century John F. Kensett Paintings"
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