John Frederick Kensett, an American Master
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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
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A wonderful find!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 14 years ago
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!
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