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expand_moreSmithsonian American Art Museum · United States · Acquired 2024 · Accession 2024.22 · oil on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Robert and Margaret Hazen
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 2018 · Accession 2018.921 · Graphite heightened with white on paper
Gift of the Estate of John K. Howat, in honor of Joy and Irving Wolf, 2018
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 2012 · Accession 2012.266 · Book
Gift of Professor Frank Jewett Mather Jr., 2012, transferred from Watson Library
Cleveland Museum of Art · Cleveland, United States · Acquired 1999 · Accession 1999.210 · oil on canvas
Gift in memory of John M. Henderson
Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago, United States · Acquired 1997 · Accession 1996.444 · Oil on canvas
Gift of Brooks McCormick
Nasher Museum of Art · Durham, North Carolina, United States · Acquired 1987 · Accession 1987.7.1 · Oil on canvas
Museum purchase with funds provided by Mrs. Fred von Canon
Smithsonian American Art Museum · United States · Acquired 1979 · Accession 1979.17 · pencil and watercolor on paper
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 1979 · Accession 1979.101 · Graphite on blue wove paper
Gift of Michael St. Clair, 1979
Smithsonian American Art Museum · United States · Acquired 1977 · Accession 1977.107.2 · oil on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Helen Huntington Hull
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston · Houston, United States · Acquired 1976 · Accession 76.200 · Oil on canvas
Museum purchase funded by the Hogg Brothers Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg, by exchange; the Houston Friends of Art; Mrs. William Stamps Farish, by exchange; and the General …
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 1976 · Accession 1976.19 · Graphite on smooth textured off-white wove paper
Morris K. Jesup Fund, 1976
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 1974 · Accession 1974.198 · Watercolor and graphite on white wove paper
Maria DeWitt Jesup and Morris K. Jesup Funds, 1974
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$10.2K – $762K
16 of 21 paintings lots with prices
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$143K
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$82.1K
16 priced paintings lots
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Jan 2026 · $50.8K
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Paintings: $82.1K medianWorks on paper: $14.0K median
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John Frederick Kensett dies
Jan 1, 1872
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John Frederick Kensett born
Jan 1, 1816


















