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John Frederick Kensett (March 22, 1816 – December 14, 1872) was an American landscape painter and engraver born in Cheshire, Connecticut. He was a member of the second generation of the Hudson River School of artists.
Among the Hudson River School artists, John Frederick Kensett is the acknowledged master of the mode termed “luminism” in American landscape painting. He was born in Cheshire, Connecticut.
John Frederick Kensett (March 22, 1816 – December 14, 1872) was an American artist and engraver. A member of the second generation of the Hudson River School of artists, Kensett's signature works are landscape paintings of New England and New York State, whose clear light and serene surfaces celebrate transcendental qualities of nature, and ...
John Frederick Kensett (born March 22, 1816, Cheshire, Connecticut, U.S.—died December 14, 1872, New York, New York) was an American landscape painter, the leader of the second generation of the Hudson River school artists.
John Frederick Kensett painted subtle and poetic depictions of nature that revealed his belief in the divine qualities of the natural world.
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Kensett visited Lake George in the Adirondacks on numerous occasions and made many studies of the area (see also 74.7, 74.11, 74.20). This painting is Kensett's largest and most accomplished treatment of the subject, as well as a fine example of his mature style.
