Flowering Bush and Desert Plants

19th century

American 19th Century after John Frederick Kensett

Associated Names
American 19th Century

Artist

John Frederick Kensett

Artist After, American, 1816 - 1872

The image is a ground-level view depicted in a sketch-like pencil drawing. There is no visible horizon line. The composition focuses on plants across a flat expanse of ground. Details of wildflowers and grass clumps are rendered with fine strokes, giving a delicate, textured appearance. The color palette is muted, consisting of the paper's beige tone and the natural gray of the pencil. The background shows more tufts of grass with less detail than the foreground plants.

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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(The Old Print Shop, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1949; acquired by the National Gallery of Art, 2015

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1974

  • The Art of South Dakota, South Dakota Memorial Art Center, Brookings, 1974

1979

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

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. 229.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite by unknown hand: A; lower center verso in graphite by unknown hand: 16x20; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: Desert Flowers

Wikidata ID

Q64534855

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