Sunset Landscape

Artist John Frederick Kensett American, 1816–1872

Date1851

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions14 x 19 3/ 4in. (35.6 x 50.2 cm)
Frame: 18 3/4 x 24 5/8 x 2 7/8 in. (47.6 x 62.5 x 7.3 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

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

Object numberG.28.2.44

On View

Not on view

Provenance**Created United States, 1851; collection of the artist; Robert Morrison Olyphant (1824–1918), New York; [estate sale, American Art Galleries, New York, February 17, 1919, no. 34, as Twilight]; 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 References“Valuable Paintings: Antique and Modern Furniture, Ceramics, Glassware, and Other Objects,” (auction catalogue) (New York: American Art Galleries), February 12–February 17, 1919, no. 34 (as Twilight).

“Art and Book Sales: Olyphant-Garrett Picture Sale,” American Art News 17, no. 20 (February 22, 1919), listed 5.

Robert F. Phifer Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1973), 42, illus. (b-w) 43.
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, American Art Galleries, “Valuable Paintings: Antique and Modern Furniture, Ceramics, Glassware, and Other Objects,” February 12–February 17, 1919, no. 34 (as Twilight).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Robert F. Phifer Collection," March 31–May 13, 1973, 42, illus. (b-w) 43.
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