John Frederick Kensett, 1860 - Almy's Pond, Newport - fine art print

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This 19th century work of art Almy's Pond, Newport was created by the romanticist artist John Frederick Kensett in 1860. The original version was made with the size - 12 5/8 x 22 1/8 in (32,06 x 56,19 cm) and was painted with oil on canvas. Besides, the piece of art belongs to the digital art collection of Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which is the largest art museum in the western United States, with a collection of more than 142.000 objects that illuminate 6.000 years of artistic expression across the globe. With courtesy of Los Angeles County Museum of Art (www.lacma.org) (license - public domain).In addition to that, the artpiece has the following creditline: . Besides, the alignment is landscape and has an image ratio of 16 : 9, meaning that the length is 78% longer than the width. John Frederick Kensett was a painter of American nationality, whose artistic style was mainly Romanticism. The American painter was born in the year 1816 in Cheshire, New Haven county, Connecticut, United States and deceased at the age of 56 in the year 1872 in New York City, New York state, United States.

Artwork specifications by the museum's website (© Copyright - Los Angeles County Museum of Art - Los Angeles County Museum of Art)

This landscape came into the collection with the title An Inlet of Long Island Sound. The setting has recently been identified as Almy’s Pond, near Newport, Rhode Island. This low-lying area of the Rhode Island coast, with its rolling hills and salt marshes, was a popular site with American artists at mid-century and was painted by Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904) and William Trost Richards (1833-1905) as well as Kensett. The numerous landscapes of the Newport vicinity listed in the sales catalogue of his estate indicate that Kensett often worked in the area. The museum’s painting may be one of the three Almy’s Pond scenes of similar size sold at auction in 1873 (New York, Association Hall, The Collection of Over Five Hundred Paintings and Studies by the Late John E. Kensett, nos. 366, 454, 559; another painting of the same subject and similar size believed to be one of these three is in the Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago). A very similar landscape painted around 1860 from the same vantage point that recently appeared on the art market (see Related Work) suggests that the museum’s canvas was painted about the same time. In the museum’s painting Kensett viewed the pond, which once was an inlet of the Rhode Island Sound, looking toward the nearby sound, indicated by the large sailboats in the distance. The topography well suited Kensett’s temperament for serene, open landscapes. The museum’s painting typifies the artist’s mature luminist images of the 1860s. It is a tranquil view of nature on a sunny day with a clear, almost cloudless sky dominating the horizontal composition. Little activity occurs. The cattle grazing do not disturb the harmony of the composition, allowing the viewer to attain a transcendental unity with nature; even Kensett’s thin, smooth brushwork keeps from intruding upon the illusion of contact with nature.

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