Art Institute of Chicago
Near Newport
John Frederick KensettLinkedCulture matchlcp-319c5daaa748
- Date
- 1869
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Culture
- Newport
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 109228
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
In this late work, John Frederick Kensett portrayed the Rhode Island coast with spare, yet meticulous forms suffused with light and quietude. A solitary female figure seated at right almost goes unnoticed amid the long, horizontal bands of earth and water. It is the expansive sky that dominates the composition, suggestive of a spiritual force in nature. Kensett, who first trained as an engraver, applied draftsman’s precision to his paintings of the American landscape. Near Newport hints at the tourist activities that would come to define the town in the late 19th century, with couples walking along the distant shore and bathing tents dotting the horizon.
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- Credit line
- Friends of American Art Collection; Goodman Fund
- 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.
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- Object type
- AAT300033618
Part of LinkedCulture topics
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