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...Dead Jockey (M-G-M). "I don't know about the dead jockey, but if you want a tip on how to have an empty theater . . ."-V.W., Kensett...
...school's top painters-Cole, Asher Durand, John Frederick Kensett, Thomas H. Hinckley-were all represented in last week's New Hampshire show, for they all painted the White Mountains as well as the Catskills. Winslow Homer, one of the very few geniuses in the history of American painting, added his fellow artists to one New Hampshire scene to produce the small canvas (see cut) that was easily the best picture in the show...
...much better financially than American abstractionists do today. In 1858, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad dispatched Asher Durand and some of his colleagues in an excursion train, which stopped when any of the artists expressed a desire to sketch the view from the windows. The 600-odd canvases in John Kensett's studio brought $137,715 at auction after his death...
...John Frederick Kensett, one of the most popular Hudson River painters of his time, was also the most restrained. He made money at his painting and when he died, in 1872, the contents of his studio brought $137,715 at auction...
Engaged. Adele Sloane Hammond, daughter of John Henry Hammond,* lawyer, member, Brown Bros. & Co., bankers; niece of Ogden Haggerty Hammond, U. S. Ambassador to Spain; descendant of "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt; to John Kensett Olyphant, grandson of Robert Olyphant, one-time President, Delaware & Hudson R. R. Simultaneous announcement was made of the engagement of her sister, Alice Frances, to George Arthur Victor Duckworth, grandson of the late John Campbell Campbell, (1779-1861) onetime Lord Chancellor of England...