Building by a Dam

1850-1860

John Frederick Kensett

Artist, American, 1816 - 1872

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite over watercolor on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase)

  • Dimensions

    image: 13.34 × 21.27 cm (5 1/4 × 8 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 18.1 × 26.67 cm (7 1/8 × 10 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.19.559


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Ferargil Galleries, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1948; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1975

  • In Praise of Space, Westminster College Art Gallery, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania; Parsons School of Design, New York, 1975-1976

1977

  • Paper in Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977, no. 79

1979

  • Sketches by Contemporaries of Frederic E. Church, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1979

1983

  • American Master Drawings from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1983

  • In Search of the Picturesque: Nineteenth Century Images of Industry Along the Hudson River Valley, Blum Art Institute, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York; Albany Institute of History and Art, New York, 1983

1986

  • American Masters: Works on Paper from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1986-1988, pp. 25-27, no. 12, repro

Bibliography

1983

  • Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 32, no. 227.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: J.K.

Markings

embossed lower right: ACKERMAN & CO.

Wikidata ID

Q64582643


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