Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain

Near Newport

John Frederick Kensett · 1869

Provenance

Ownership history

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.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

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, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/4071/two-centuries-of-american-art-1750-1950">Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950</a>, 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.

Literature

Published references

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).

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