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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1895.713
People
Unidentified Artist
Previously attributed to John Frederick Kensett, American (Cheshire, CT 1816 - 1872 New York, NY)
Title
Stormy Landscape with Cattle
Other Titles
Former Title: Landscape with Wading Cows
Former Title: Fall Scene
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1871
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/231448

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
61 x 90.8 cm (24 x 35 3/4 in.) irregular, margins are cut
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: JF. K. '71 [monogram]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Acquired by William Hayes Fogg, New York; his bequest to his wife, Mrs. William Hayes Fogg, 1884; her bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1895.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Mrs. William Hayes Fogg
Accession Year
1895
Object Number
1895.713
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Kimberly Orcutt, "Personal Collecting Meets Institutional Vision: The Origins of Harvard's Fogg Art Museum", Journal of the History of Collections (2006), vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 267-284, p. 270
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), p. 323, cat. 286, ill.

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