John F. Kensett

John Frederick Kensett (22 Maret 1816 – 14 Desember 1872) adalah pelukis lanskap dan pengukir lahir di Cheshire, Connecticut, Amerika Serikat. Sebagai anggota generasi kedua seniman Hudson River School, karya khas Kensett adalah lukisan lanskap New England dan Negara Bagian New York, yang permukaannya cerah dan tenang merayakan kualitas transendental alam, dan dikaitkan dengan Luminisme. Karya awal Kensett banyak dipengaruhi oleh Thomas Cole, tetapi sejak awal dibedakan oleh preferensi untuk warna yang lebih dingin dan minat pada topografi yang tidak terlalu dramatis, mendukung pengekangan pada palet dan komposisi. Karya kedewasaan Kensett menampilkan pemandangan tenang yang digambarkan dengan geometri cadangan, yang berpuncak pada serangkaian lukisan di mana tanjung pantai seimbang dengan air sehalus kaca. Dia adalah pendiri Museum Seni Metropolitan.

John Frederick Kensett
John Frederick Kensett (David Johnson, 1874)
Lahir	(1816-03-22)22 Maret 1816 Cheshire, Connecticut
Meninggal	14 Desember 1872(1872-12-14) (umur 56) Kota New York
Kebangsaan	Amerika
Dikenal atas	Lukisan, Lukisan lanskap, Engraving
Gerakan politik	Luminism

Lukisan

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  Trout Fisherman, oil on canvas, 1852. Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
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  Upper Mississippi, oil on canvas, 1855. St. Louis Art Museum
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  Lake George, c. 1870, Princeton University Art Museum
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  The Old Pine, Darien, Connecticut, c. 1872, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
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  View of the Beach at Beverly, Massachusetts, oil on canvas, 1860. Santa Barbara Museum of Art
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  Lake George, 1860–1869. Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
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  Mount Washington from the Valley of Conway, 1869, The Wellesley College Museum
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  Lake George – Brooklyn Museum
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  Lake George, oil on canvas, 1869, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, has been called "one of the culminating works of the American tradition that began with Cole and Durand, both of whom had painted the lake."
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  Eaton's Neck, Long Island in New York, 1872, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Referensi

• Barringer, Tim and Wilton, Andrew. American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States 1820-1880, Princeton University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-691-09670-8
• Driscoll, John Paul and John K. Howat. John Frederick Kensett, An American Master, W. W. Norton & Company: New York, New York, 1985.
• Johnson, Ellen Hulda. "Kensett Revisited", The Art Quarterly, Spring 1957, pp. 71 – 92.

Bacaan lanjutan

• Trafton, Melissa Geisler. " 'It is a Joint Venture': John Frederick Kensett's Images for Lotus-Eating", American Art, vol. 25, no. 2, Summer 2011, pp. 104–119.
• Sullivan, Mark W. "Meaning in John F. Kensett's October Day in the White Mountains", Cleveland Studies in the History of Art, Vol. 6 (2001), pp. 48–61.
• Sullivan, Mark W. "John F. Kensett at Newport: The Making of a Luminist Painter," The Magazine Antiques, Vol. 138, No. 5 (November 1990), 1030–1041.
• Sullivan, Mark W. "John F. Kensett, American Landscape Painter." Diss., Bryn Mawr College, 1981.
• Levitt, Ruth. Kensett: Artisans in Britain and America in the 18th and 19th centuries. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/files/31058138/KENSETT_by_RUTH_LEVITT_2014.pdf. London, King's Research Portal, November 2014.

Pranala luar

• American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Kensett (see index)
• Art and the empire city: New York, 1825-1861, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Kensett (see index)
• Finding Aid to John Frederick Kensett Papers, 1830-1872 at the New York State Library, accessed May 18, 2016.
• White Mountain paintings by John Frederick Kensett
• www.JohnFrederickKensett.org 145 works by John Frederick Kensett
• Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalogue's collection of Kensett works.