Mount Washington, New Hampshire
John Frederick Kensett, American, 1816 - 1872
about 1854
Oil on canvas
Overall: 9 1/8 × 17 3/4 in. (23.2 × 45.1 cm)
Frame: 15 1/2 × 23 3/4 in. (39.4 × 60.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Robert A. and Dorothy H. Goldberg in honor of Harold M. Friedman, M.D.
P.987.34.30
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, lower left: JFK (in monogram); inscribed on gummed label, on reverse: Painting by J. F. Kensett 1816-72 / Received Jan 1, 1933 from executor / of Cousin Jennie Whittemore's / Estate - and from collection of Cousin Fr (illegible) Bianchi. Red-bordered gummed label: Picture in Royal Acad / John F. Kensett. / b. 1816 Cheshire, Conn / d. 1872 - two paintings / in Met Museum N.Y. / River Scence (sic) (1870) / Landscape / this from Est. F. Bianchi
Exhibition History
A Sweet Foretaste of Heaven: Artists in the White Moutains, 1830-1930, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 10-October 30, 1988.
American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 9-December 9, 2007.
American Viewpoints: Painting and Sculpture from the Hood Museum of Art, Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, California, May 5-August 31, 2003.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 7, 2010.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 12, 1990-June 1, 1993.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 17, 2001-February 28, 2003.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 2, 2009-November 2, 2009.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 19, 2003-April 13, 2004.
Photo reproduction exhibited at Weeks State Park, Lancaster, New Hampshire, 1990.
Publication History
Robert L. McGrath and Barbara J. MacAdam, "A Sweet Foretaste of Heaven", Artists in the White Mountains 1830-1930, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1988, p.56, no.16.
Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 48, no. 27.
Provenance
Dorothy E. Huffman Goldberg (1917-1997) and Robert A. Goldberg (1918-1997), North Conway, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 1987.
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