JOHN FREDERICK KENSETT | SUNSET OVER THE CATSKILLS

Charles Callahan Perkins, Boston, Massachusetts, by 1879

William C. Endicott, Jr., Boston, Massachusetts

Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts

Acquired by the present owner, by 1979

Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, Exhibition of Contemporary Art, April-May 1879, no. 353, p. 18

Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, June 1886

New York, Alexander Gallery, Landscapes of the Hudson River School: First Public Exhibition of a Private Collection, November 1979

Washington, D.C., Adams Davidson Galleries, American Luminism, February-April 1980

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, The American Landscape Tradition, November 1982-January 1983

Newark, Delaware, University Gallery, University of Delaware, An Intimate View: Hudson River Landscapes from a Private Collection, April-May 1985

Annville, Pennsylvania, Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery, Lebanon Valley College, Passages: Images of Transition in 19th-Century American Landscape Painting, August-October 1995

Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Westmoreland Museum of American Art; University Park, Pennsylvania, Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University; Worcester, Massachusetts, Worcester Art Museum; New York, The National Academy, All That Is Glorious Around Us: Paintings from the Hudson River School, August 1997-September 1999, pp. 17, 100, illustrated p. 15

Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Westmoreland Museum of American Art; New Paltz, New York, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz; University Park, Pennsylvania, Palmer Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University; Scranton, Pennsylvania, Everhart Museum; Winchester, Virginia, Museum of the Shenandoah Valley; Reading, Pennsylvania, Reading Public Museum; Austin, Texas, Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, American Scenery: Different Views in Hudson River School Painting, August 2005-May 2012, pp. 32, 158, illustrated p. 32

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 20^th century including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Thomas Wolfe.