Landing at Sabbath Day Point

c. 1853

John Frederick Kensett

Artist, American, 1816 - 1872

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mrs. Sigourney Thayer

  • Dimensions

    overall: 25.4 x 39.9 cm (10 x 15 11/16 in.)
    framed: 38.1 x 52.1 x 6.4 cm (15 x 20 1/2 x 2 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1968.7.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Andrew Kirkpatrick Cogswell [d. 1887], New Brunswick, New Jersey;[1] his second wife, Virginia Claiborne Latrobe Cogswell, New Brunswick, New Jersey, and Baltimore;[2] her son, John H.B. Latrobe Cogswell [d. 1967]; his half-niece, Mary V.R. Thayer [Mrs. Sigourney Thayer], Washington, D.C.; gift 1968 to NGA.
[1] The provenance was provided by the donor of the painting in an undated memorandum (in NGA curatorial files).
[2] A death date for Virginia Cogswell has not been established. An obituary for her husband in the New York Daily Tribune, 14 February 1887, states that she was then "at the point of death"; however, according to Mary Thayer (undated memorandum in NGA curatorial files), Virginia Cogswell and her son John "returned to Baltimore to live" following the death of Judge Cogswell.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1970

  • Extended loan for use by The White House, Washington, D.C., 1970-1993.

1994

  • Extended loan for use by Ambassador Donald Blinken, U.S. Embassy residence, Budapest, Hungary, 1994-1997.

1998

  • American Light: Selections from the National Gallery of Art, Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, May-August 1998, no cat.

  • Treasures of Light: Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, March-April 1998, no cat.

2006

  • Extended loan for use by Vice President and Mrs. Richard Cheney, Vice President's Residence, Washington, D.C., 2006-2009.

Bibliography

1970

  • American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 76, repro.

1980

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 187, repro.

1981

  • Williams, William James. A Heritage of American Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1981: 118, repro 120.

1992

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 217, repro.

1996

  • Kelly, Franklin, with Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Deborah Chotner, and John Davis. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 388-391, color repro.

Inscriptions

lower right, JF in ligature: JF.K.

Wikidata ID

Q20188033

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