Gathering Storm on Long Island Sound 1872 is a painting by John Frederick Kensett 1816-1872 which was uploaded on March 28th, 2024.
Gathering Storm on Long Island Sound 1872
The simplicity of line, form and arrangement that marks Kensett's late coastal landscapes lends to most of them an appealing repose. Here the mood... more
Title
Gathering Storm on Long Island Sound 1872
Artist
John Frederick Kensett 1816-1872
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
The simplicity of line, form and arrangement that marks Kensett's late coastal landscapes lends to most of them an appealing repose. Here the mood shifts to subtle tension, in the dialogue between the spiny limbs of the vigilant pines and the enclosing sky. Kensett was a master in the expressive, if understated, use of trees. In this painting, their iconic, even anthropomorphic, qualities, silhouetted against the brooding firmament, evoke Rembrandt's etching, "The Three Trees," a classic of western landscape imagery that Kensett would have known well.
(c) The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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March 28th, 2024
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