# October in the Marshes, in Hudson River School

John Frederick Kensett painted this in 1872, aged 56. It is now at The Met in New York.

Our note:

> Autumn marsh grasses glow in muted golds and browns beneath a wide sky, in one of the paintings John Frederick Kensett made in 1872, the last year of his life, near his summer home on the Connecticut shore. After his death his brother gave a large group of these late canvases to the newly founded Metropolitan Museum.

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## The work

- Date: 1872
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 18 1/2 x 30 1/2 in. (47 x 77.5 cm)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 74.25
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[John Frederick Kensett](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/john-frederick-kensett), American, 1816–1872

Kensett trained as an engraver before spending seven years in Europe, sketching in England and Italy. Back in New York in 1847 he became a leading figure of the second generation of the Hudson River School.

6 works in the collection.

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