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Birth
1816 (Cheshire, Connecticut)
Death
1872 (Long Island, New York)
Lived/Active
New York
Courtesy: Albany Institute
Often Known For
landscape and coastal scene painting, engravings
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Hudson River School Painters
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The following is from The New York Times, July 4, 2001, www.nytimes.com/2001/07/04/nyregion/04HUDS.html
The Final Strokes Are Kensett's Best
By GRACE GLUECK
With Eatons Neck, Long Island, the Luminist landscape painter John
Frederick Kensett did not have far to go for subject matter. In the
late 1860's he bought land and built a studio on an island near Darien,
Conn., off the shore of Long Island Sound. And in the summer (showing 500 of 22368 characters). |
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