Coastal Scene

Artist John Frederick Kensett American, 1816–1872

Date1850

MediumOil on paper mounted on canvas

Dimensions9 1/4 x 18 1/2 in. (23.5 x 47 cm)
Frame: 12 1/2 x 21 3/8 in. (31.8 x 54.3 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest)

Object numberG.28.2.18

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Provenance**Created United States, 1850; collection of the artist. Robert Fulenwider Phifer (1849–1928), New York and Concord, NC; bequeathed to the NC State Art Society, Raleigh, NC, 1928; officially transferred by the Society to the NCMA, 1961.Published ReferencesRobert F. Phifer Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1973), 42, illus. (b-w) 43.Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Robert F. Phifer Collection," March 31-May 13, 1973, 42, illus. (b-w) 43.

Beaufort, NC, Carteret County Library, "Six American Landscape Paintings," September 13-22, 1986.

North Wilkesboro, NC, Wilkes Art Gallery, "American Landscape Paintings from the North Carolina Museum of Art," March 18-April 5, 1988.

Fayetteville, NC, Fayetteville Museum of Art, "Bicentennial/Bicentennial: American Paintings and Audubon Prints from the North Carolina Museum of Art,"October 29-December 3, 1989.

Asheville, NC, Asheville Art Museum, "Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Paintings from the North Carolina Museum of Art," March 5-April 28, 1991.

Lexington, NC, Davidson County Art Guild, "American Portraits and Landscapes from the NCMA," April 2-30, 1992.

Durham, NC, North Carolina Central University, "American Landscape, East and West, 1820-1920," November 4-December 9, 1979.
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