The Old Pine, Darien, Connecticut 1872 is a painting by John Frederick Kensett 1816-1872 which was uploaded on March 29th, 2024.
The Old Pine, Darien, Connecticut 1872
The varieties of transparent light and air along New England's coast preoccupied Kensett throughout the last decade of his life. In 1872, the year of... more
Title
The Old Pine, Darien, Connecticut 1872
Artist
John Frederick Kensett 1816-1872
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
The varieties of transparent light and air along New England's coast preoccupied Kensett throughout the last decade of his life. In 1872, the year of his death, he spent the entire summer painting on his island, called Contentment, in Long Island Sound off Darien, Connecticut, painting the local sky, water, rocks, and trees in compositions such as this one. Among the so-called "last summer's work" that Kensett's brother, Thomas, donated to the Metropolitan Museum in 1874, this picture is somewhat unusual in its almost reverent devotion to tree portraiture. The deliberate application typifying the artist's style possesses little of the summary elegance of Japanese ink-painting, yet both his subject and his delicacy of touch evoke Asian art.
(c) The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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March 29th, 2024
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