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Article: In Landscape Paintings, Kensett Found Clarity.(Arts&Entertainment)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- November 5, 2001
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Byline: Hilton Kramer
The American painter John Frederick Kensett (1816-72), whose late paintings are currently the subject of an enchanting, small-scale exhibition at the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, Conn., achieved abundant recognition as a master talent in his lifetime. He was, in fact, a pillar of the establishment in the American cultural life of his day--a founder of both the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Century Club, a member of the National Academy of Design, and a power in many of the other committees and newly created institutions that set the course of officially approved art and culture in 19th-century New York. Fortunately, he was also an ...
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