Birch Tree, Niagara
John Frederick Kensett
probably 1851
Medium
Graphite on smooth textured off-white wove paper
Dimensions
16 9/16 x 10 5/8 in. (42.1 x 27 cm)
Classification
Drawing
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Morris K. Jesup Fund, 1976
Accession Number
1976.19
Tags
Trees
About the Artist
John Frederick Kensett · 1816–1872
John Frederick Kensett (1816–1872) was one of the most admired American landscape painters of the nineteenth century, a central figure of the Hudson River School whose late work pioneered the atmospheric, light-saturated style now known as Luminism. Born in Cheshire, Connecticut, into a family of engravers, Kensett learned the craft of engraving in his youth, a discipline that gave him an early tr...