American Art
American Art
All That Is Glorious Around Us: Property from an Important American Collector
JOHN FREDERICK KENSETT | SUNSET OVER THE CATSKILLS
Auction Closed
November 19, 04:22 PM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
All That Is Glorious Around Us: Property from an Important American Collector
JOHN FREDERICK KENSETT
1816 - 1872
SUNSET OVER THE CATSKILLS
signed JF.K. and dated 55 (lower right)
oil on canvas
18 by 24 inches
(45.7 by 61 cm)
Charles Callahan Perkins, Boston, Massachusetts, by 1879
William C. Endicott, Jr., Boston, Massachusetts
Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts
Acquired by the present owner, by 1979
John Frederick Kensett's Sunset Over the Catskills was once owned by Charles Callahan Perkins of Boston, Massachusetts. Perkins was an early founder of the Museum of Fine Arts and served as President of the Boston Art Club for ten years. He was the grandfather of the influential editor Maxwell Perkins, who would go on to discover some of the most prominent American writers of the first half of the 20th century including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Thomas Wolfe.