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Original works by John Frederick Kensett available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio
Bash Bish Falls, ca.1855
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Sunrise among the Rocks of Paradise, Newport, 1859
John Frederick Kensett at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
26 works by John Frederick Kensett online
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Watercolor collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
John Frederick Kensett at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
3 works by John Frederick Kensett
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
The Temple of Neptune, Paestum
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Mt. Mansfield from Malletts Bay, Lake Champlain
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
Untitled (landscape), watercolor
Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University, Indiana
Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Utah
Brooklyn Museum, New York City NEW!
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
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Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
Esopus Creek
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College, Florida
The Langdale Pike, 1858
Cummer Museum of Art, Jacksonville, Florida
Marine View of Beacon Rock, Newport Harbor, 1864
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Newport, Rhode Island (Beacon Rock), 1872
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Massachusetts
Mount Washington from the Valley of Conway, 1851
Everhart Museum, Scranton, Pennsylvania NEW!
Mt. Washington in the White Mountains, 1856
Five College Museums Collections Database, Massachusetts
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee
View at Conway, ca.1850
John Frederick Kensett in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia
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Maryland State Archives
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
A Showery Day, Lake George
Middlebury College Museum of Art, Vermont NEW!
Landscape, Village in Distance
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
Lakes of Killarney
National Academy Museum & School of Fine Arts, New York City
5 works online
New-York Historical Society
6 paintings online
Palmer Museum of Art at Pennsylvania State University
Flinstone, New Hampshire, 1850
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey NEW!
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, New York
Sunset over the Catskills, 1855
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, New York
Mount Chocorua, 1857
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, New York
Reminiscences of the Catskill Mountains, 1853
Sheldon Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
Silver Flume Waterfall
John Frederick Kensett at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Springfield Museum of Art, Ohio
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago
Almy Pond, Newport, ca.1857
Near Newport, Rhode Island, 1872
The Huntington Library, California
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
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Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
View of Mt. Washington from Tuckerman's Ravine
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas NEW!
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Pictures from Image Archives:
John Frederick Kensett in the Art Renewal Center
John Frederick Kensett in the Artchive
John Frederick Kensett at CGFA
John Frederick Kensett at The Athenaeum 
132 works online by Kensett
Web Gallery of Art
California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
The History Project at U.C. Davis NEW!
Miscellaneous Sites:
White Mountain Art and Artists
Why We Think Nature is Beautiful
Illustrated article by Eugene C. Hargrove
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on John Frederick Kensett 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: In Landscape Paintings, Kensett Found Clarity
Multimedia:
Antiques Roadshow (PBS) Appraisals NEW!
"19th-Century John F. Kensett Paintings"
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