COLLECTION NAME:
Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
aahi0008338
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Work Title (display):
Beacon Rock, Newport Harbor
Image Title:
full view
Work Dates (display):
1857
Work Dates type:
creation
Image Date (display):
2011-06-30
Work Creator (display):
John Frederick Kensett (American, 1816-1872)
Work Creator gender:
male
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male
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Work Creator notes (display):
American landscape painter. Born in Cheshire, Conn., Kensett trained as an engraver and worked for his father and uncle c.1828c.1840. Presumably he also painted for in 1840 he sailed to England with Asher Durand and spent the next seven years studying and painting in England, France, Switzerland, and Italy. Early works, like English Landscape (c.18435; New York, Brooklyn Mus.), are painterly and vigorous but when he returned to America a Claudean calm pervaded his work, brush strokes were eliminated, tonal changes were virtually imperceptible, and, like earlier members of the Hudson River School, he imposed a Romantic sensibility on the vast American wilderness. His acute observation of light effects, refined from nature, in works like the misty Lake George (1869; New York, Met. Mus.), associate him with luminism. Towards the end of his life the format of his work became increasingly horizontal, often of extensive coastal views like the Coast Scene with Figures (1869; Hartford, Conn., Wadsworth Atheneum), a Friedrich-like essay in Romanticism. Kensett played an active role in public life and was a founder trustee of the Metropolitan Museum, New York, in 1870. (Grove Art Online Accessed 2006-07-28)
Work Style Period:
Luminist
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Luminist
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Work Style Period:
19th century
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19th century
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Work Subject:
Sublime, the
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Sublime, the
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Work Subject:
spirituality
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spirituality
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Work Subject:
America
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America
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Work Subject:
nature
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nature
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false
Work Subject:
history (discipline)
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history (discipline)
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false
Work Subject:
pastoral
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pastoral
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
oceans
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oceans
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false
Work Subject:
landscapes (representations)
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landscapes (representations)
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false
Work Subject:
New England
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New England
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
Beacon Rock (Wash.)
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Beacon Rock (Wash.)
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Work Worktype:
oil paintings
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oil paintings
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Work Worktype:
paintings (visual works)
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paintings (visual works)
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Work Category (VRC classification):
paintings
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paintings
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Work Material and Technique (display):
oil on canvas
Work Measurements (display):
22.5 in (H) x 36 in (W)
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
repository
Work Location (Geographic) name:
Washington D.C.
Image Source Reproduction citation:
Pohl, Frances K. Framing America: A Social History of American Art. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Thames and Hudson, 2008. Print.
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Pohl, Frances K. Framing America: A Social History of American Art. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Thames and Hudson, 2008. Print.
Image Source Reproduction citation
false
Image Source Reproduction refid:
978-0-500-28715-6
Image Source Reproduction page number:
161
Image Source Reproduction plate-figure number:
3.30
Image Source Reproduction refid type:
ISBN
Image Rights (display):
© The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Image Rights fair use checklist:
1) use of this image is for education and educational research; 2) access is restricted to University of Colorado and Auraria Higher Education Center communities; 3) the original photographer is credited if known; 4) the image is published; 5) the amount of the work in relation to the whole is needed for education or educational research; 6) the number of derivatives is the minimum required for education or educational research; 7) the image has not been found to be reasonably available for sale; 8) duplication of the image does not violate preexisting contracts.
Work Rights (display):
public domain
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Holding Institution:
University of Colorado at Boulder
Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Collection
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