About This Artwork

John Frederick Kensett
American, 1816-1872

Near Newport, 1869

Oil on canvas
29.5 x 62.4 cm (11 5/8 x 24 1/4 in.)
Signed, lower right: "JFK (monogram) 69"
Friends of American Art Collection; Goodman Fund, 1944.686

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, N.Y., National Academy of Design, Collection of Over Five Hundred Paintings and Studies by the Late John F. Kensett, March 24-29, 1873, no. 178, as Near Newport.

Art Institute of Chicago, The Hudson River School and the Early American Landscape Tradition, February 15-March 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, cat. no. 1, as Rocky Coast, Newport.

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.

Lake Forest College, Ill., Durand Art Institute, A Century of American Painting: Masterpieces Loaned by The Art Institute of Chicago, June 10-16, 1957, cat. no. 3, as Third Beach, Newport.

New York, N.Y., The Whitney Museum of American Art, John Frederick Kensett, 1816-1872, September 10-October 20, 1968, cat. no. 41, ill. as Rocky Coast at Newport; traveled to Houston, Texas, the Museum of Fine Arts, February 27-April 13, 1969; Jacksonville, Fla., Cummer Gallery of Art, April 29-June 8, 1969.

Worcester, Mass., Worcester Art Museum, John Frederick Kensett, An American Master, March 26-June 9, 1985, John Paul Driscoll and John K. Howat, pl. 26, ill.; traveled to Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Calif., July 11-September 8, 1985; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 29, 1985-January 19, 1986

Publication History

John Paul Driscoll and John K. Howat, John Frederick Kensett, an American Master (Worcester, Mass.: 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).

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 1949.