John Frederick Kensett (22 March 1816 – 14 December 1872) was an American luminist landscape painter.
View of the Shrewsbury River, New Jersey, 1859
Lake George, Free Study, 1872
Lake Erie, 1865
Salt Meadow in October, 1872
Forest Interior With Stream, c. 1860
Twilight in the Cedars at Darien, Connecticut, 1872
Sunset Sky, 1872
Passing off of the Storm, 1872
A selection of work by the Russian landscape artist…
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All I’d done was point to it, the pale / declaration the pear blossoms made without / meaning to against their backdrop of cathedral, sky …
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Souls of Poets dead and gone, / What Elysium have ye known, / Happy field or mossy cavern, / Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? …
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The tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...
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The thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...
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I spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...
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