John Frederick Kensett, an American Master

by John K. Howat, John Paul Driscoll, John Frederick / John Paul Driscoll and John K. Howat Kensett

Book Overview

This volume presents the first extensive record of the life and work of John Frederick Kensett, one of America's most successful and admired landscape and marine painters of the mid-nineteenth century. His early training as an apprentice in his father's engraving shop was humble, and soon bored by the tedium of the craft, Kensett aspired to a higher vocation, that of a painter. In pursuit of this career, he embarked for Europe in 1840. There his studies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393019349
• ISBN13: 9780393019346
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 10.3" x 11.3"

Customer Reviews

A wonderful find!

I think that SusieQ is spoiled for the quality of printing that we now enjoy in books that were more recently printed than 1985. When I found this book at a secondhand bookstore I flipped since it is such a rare and wonderful find. Maybe Yale will do a major publication some day. Wouldn't that be lovely!