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A Showery Day, Lake George
ca. 186014 1/8 x 24 1/8 in. (35.9 x 61.3 cm)
John Frederick Kensett
United States (Cheshire, CT, 1816 - 1872, New York, NY)
Object Type:
Painting
Medium and Support:
Oil on canvas
Credit Line:
Marion Stratton Gould Fund
Accession Number:
1974.29
Location: Not currently on view
Provenance
Artist; Artist's estate; Vose Galleries of Boston; Graham Blandy, Connecticut; Vose Galleries of Boston; purchased by the Gallery in 1974
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Harris K. Prior Memorial Exhibition 4/2/1976 - 5/2/1976
- Through the Looking Glass 12/6/1980 - 1/25/1981
- Golden Day, Silver Night: Perceptions of Nature in American Art 1850-1910 Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art 2/3/1982 - 3/20/1983
- In Praise of Nature: Ansel Adams and the Photographers of the American West International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House 6/15/2001 - 9/17/2001
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Article Author: Junker, Patricia. Article Scope: Entry. Susan Dodge Peters, ed. Memorial Art Gallery: An Introduction to the Collection. New York, New York: Memorial Art Gallery in association with Hudson Hills Press, 1988. Page Number: 184-185
- Article Author: Anderson, Patricia. Article Title: John Frederick Kensett: A Showery Day, Lake George. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Memorial Art Gallery. Gallery Notes. Rochester, New York: Memorial Art Gallery, 1935-1995. Issue Date: November 1986. Page Number: 2
- Article Title: John Kensett (1816-1872). Article Scope: Entry. Gwendolyn Owens and John Peters-Campbell. Golden Day, Silver Night: Perceptions of Nature in American Art 1850-1910. Ithaca, NY: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, 1982. Page Number: 70-71, Figure Number: 71
- Article Scope: Entry. John K. Howat and James Thomas Flexner. John Frederick Kensett 1816-1872. New York, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1968.
- Article Author: Johnson, Ellen H.. Article Title: Kensett Revisited. Article Scope: Article. The Art Quarterly. New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume Number: XX, Issue Number: I. Issue Date: Spring 1957. Page Number: 71-92
- Impact. New York, NY: Impact
- Article Author: Owen, Gwendolyn. Article Title: Golden Days/Silver Nights. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Cornell Alumni News. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Volume Number: 85, Issue Number: 3. Issue Date: October 1982. Page Number: 25, Figure Number: 25
- The Magazine Antiques. New York, NY: Straight Enterprises Inc.
- Grant Holcomb, III, ed. Voices in the Gallery: Writers on Art. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2001.
- Article Title: In Recognition.... Article Scope: Article and reproduction. MAGazine. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery Issue Date: November-December 1995.
- Article Author: Welsh, Caroline M.. Article Title: John Frederick Kensett: A Showery Day, Lake George. Article Scope: Chapter and reproduction. Marjorie B. Searl, ed. Seeing America: painting and sculpture from the collection of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2006. Page Number: 64-66
- Erin Budis Coe and Gwendolyn Owens. Modern Nature: Georgia O'Keeffe and Lake George. Thames and Hudson, 2013.
- Article Author: Christian. Article Title: The Mountain. Article Scope: Poetry. Community Voices in the Gallery: a Collection of Writings by Members of our Community Inspired by Works of Art at the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2009. Page Number: 55
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Seeing America Inservice
Materials from a teacher in-service presentation Spring 2008
Seeing America
Chapter on John Frederick Kensett's A Showery Day, Lake George, written by Caroline M. Welsh.
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