Word: kensett
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...George Washington and Samuel Morse's The Gallery of the Louvre to a good Eakins, a vigorous Mary Cassatt of boaters feeding ducks, and a set of admirable monotypes by Maurice Prendergast. There is also some very minor work by famous names (Homer, Martin Johnson Heade, John Frederick Kensett) and a plethora of those 1890s contre-jour pictures of nice Boston girls in flowing chiffon scarves -- genteel provincial salon painting that has been revived as a market craze for investors now that the supply of Childe Hassams and the like is running...
...plant could be taken to symbolize some aspect of God's plan, had a landscape been as widely moralized as America's wilderness. Novak persuasively argues that the powers of artists as diverse as Frederic Edwin Church, Albert Bierstadt, Martin Johnson Heade, Thomas Cole or John F. Kensett did not simply arise from their formal talents as painters. They were reinforced by a social agreement about the meanings of art and landscape in the last age of faith, when there still appeared to be a seamless, didactic relationship between nature and man. The medium of this relationship...