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

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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.