john kensett (5 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Paperback. Binding sound, text clean, light shelfwear. Folio (oversize). 92-page illustrated exhibition catalogue. Heavy book; priority or international shipping may be extra. Book.

First Edition. First edition. Oblong softcover. Exhibition catalog. Introduction by James Thomas Flexner. Essay by John K. Howat. Includes 47 black and white illustrations and a selected bibliography. A very good plus copy in wrappers with some minor wear.

Zustand: Good. First Edition. 8vo. Soft Covers. 46 pp. Very Good.Catalogue accompanies the exhibitions at May 1 - June 18, 1993. Introduction by James Thomas Flexner and essay by John K. Howat.Black and white plates.Library of Congress number: 68-57157.

Print. First printing. An image by John Kensett, Hudson River artist, published by the American Art Union (1839-1851), an organization created to support contemporary American art and to develop a popular appreciation of it. By 1849, they had almost 19,000 subscribers. The AAU is well known today for the thirty-six engravings it published based on the paintings of some of the most luminous names in American art, e.g. George Caleb Bingham, Thomas Cole, F.O.C. Darley, R.C. Woodville and Asher B. Durand. Kensett was a member of the second generation of the Hudson River School of artists. Inspired by Thomas Cole, his landscapes of New England and New York State depict a clear light and serene surfaces celebrating transcendental qualities of nature, and are associated with Luminism. He was a founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Wikipedia). James Smillie was a well revered engraver. Printed area 9 x 10 1/2" with full plate mark and large margins, paper 14 5/8 x 18". Some very faint occasional wrinkles with a couple of small marginal tears supported on the verso. Overall, very good condition.

Zustand: Good overall. The letter is written by John Lawrence Riker, a vice president of the Bank of New York, to his brother Henry, with an extensive description and history of his Kensett painting "Coast of Cape Ann". "My dear Brother, Sam tells me that you desired a description of the painting by "Kensett" which I sent many years since to Mr. Lazarus, with the intention of having, I believe, the sky touched up, as it was an incomplete work, the sky simply laid in. It was called "Coast of Cape Ann". There follows a description of the work, the size (24 x 16") which he bought at the "public sale of Mr. Kensett's effects". The painting was lot No. 332 and achieved $460, one of the higher priced paintings. Sam Riker was the executor of the estate of the artist Jacob Lazarus. The catalogue of the sale is recorded as OCLC 1110428953, auctioned by Robert Somerville, "Collection of Over 500 Paintings & Studies by the late John F. Kensett", a 5 day sale in March 1873. The auction realized $127,139. Written on heraldic paper with mourning black margin, 4 1/2 x 7". Hand addressed "19 West 57th Street, March 3, 1891". Some tanning in margins, upper corner crack repaired archivally. An interesting history of a painting by a Hudson River School artist.