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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Near Newport
    John Frederick Kensett. Near Newport, 1869. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00001460

    Near Newport

    by John Frederick Kensett

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Signed, lower right: "JFK (monogram) 69"

    Provenance

    John F. Kensett, New York, 1869. Robert Somerville, New York, 1873; Richard Lawrence Schieffelin, New York, 1873. A. F. Mondschein, New York, by 1944; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1949.

    Exhibition history

    New York, NY, National Academy of Design, Collection of Over Five Hundred Paintings and Studies by the Late John F. Kensett, Mar. 24–29, 1873, no. 178, as Near Newport. Art Institute of Chicago, The Hudson River School and the Early American Landscape Tradition, Feb. 15–Mar. 25, 1945, Frederick A. Sweet, cat. no. 126, p. 84, ill. as Rocky Coast at Newport. Milwaukee–Downer College, Wisconsin, A Century of Landscape Painting by American Artists, 1851–1951, Feb. 13 – Mar. 23, 1951, cat. no. 1, as Rocky Coast, Newport. *only checklist on back of symposium brochure, The Arts in Society, Milwaukee–Downer College Feb. 13, 1951. Athens, Ohio University, Edwin Watts Chubb Literary Art Gallery, American Painting: Masterpieces Loaned by the Art Institute of Chicago, cat. no. 3, as Third Beach, Newport. IL, Durand Art Institute, Lake Forest College, A Century of American Painting: Masterpieces Loaned by The Art Institute of Chicago, June 10–16, 1957, no. 3, as Third Beach, Newport. Art Institute of Chicago, Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available]. New York, NY, The Whitney Museum of American Art, John Frederick Kensett, 1816–1872, Sept. 10–Oct. 20, 1968, cat. no. 41, ill. as Rocky Coast at Newport; Houston, Texas, the Museum of Fine Arts, Feb. 27–Apr. 13, 1969; Jacksonville, Fla., Cummer Gallery of Art, Apr. 29–June 8, 1969. Worcester, Mass., Worcester Art Museum, John Frederick Kensett, An American Master, Mar. 26–June 9, 1985, John Paul Driscoll and John K. Howat, pl. 26, ill.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Calif., July 11–Sept. 8, 1985; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oct. 29, 1985–Jan. 19, 1986.

    Publications

    John Paul Driscoll and John K. Howat, John Frederick Kensett, an American Master (Worcester, MA: Worcester Art Museum, 1985), pl. 26, ill. Art Institute of Chicago, Master Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown, 1988), p. 87, ill. Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998).

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    John Frederick Kensett / American, 1816–1872
    Date
    1869
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    29.5 × 62.4 cm (11 5/8 × 24 1/4 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    painting
    Place
    Newport
    Department
    Arts of the Americas
    Credit line
    Friends of American Art Collection; Goodman Fund
    Accession no.
    1944.686

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