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A solitary female figure seated at right almost goes unnoticed amid the long, horizontal bands of earth and water. It is the expansive sky that dominates the composition, suggestive of a spiritual force in nature. Kensett, who first trained as an engraver, applied draftsman\u2019s precision to his paintings of the American landscape. <em>Near Newport<\/em> hints at the tourist activities that would come to define the town in the late 19th century, with couples walking along the distant shore and bathing tents dotting the horizon.<\/p>\n","short_description":null,"dimensions":"29.5 \u00d7 62.4 cm (11 5\/8 \u00d7 24 1\/4 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":62,"height":29,"diameter":null,"clarification":null}],"medium_display":"Oil on canvas","inscriptions":"Signed, lower right: \"JFK (monogram) 69\"","credit_line":"Friends of American Art Collection; Goodman Fund","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"John Paul Driscoll and John K. Howat, John Frederick Kensett, an American Master (Worcester, MA: Worcester Art Museum, 1985), pl. 26, ill.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Master Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown, 1988), p. 87, ill.\n\nJudith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998).","exhibition_history":"New York, NY, National Academy of Design, Collection of Over Five Hundred Paintings and Studies by the Late John F. Kensett, Mar. 24\u201329, 1873, no. 178, as Near Newport.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, The Hudson River School and the Early American Landscape Tradition, Feb. 15\u2013Mar. 25, 1945, Frederick A. Sweet, cat. no. 126, p. 84, ill. as Rocky Coast at Newport.\n\nMilwaukee\u2013Downer College, Wisconsin, A Century of Landscape Painting by American Artists, 1851\u20131951, Feb. 13 \u2013 Mar. 23, 1951, cat. no. 1, as Rocky Coast, Newport. *only checklist on back of symposium brochure, The Arts in Society, Milwaukee\u2013Downer College Feb. 13, 1951.\n\nAthens, Ohio University, Edwin Watts Chubb Literary Art Gallery, American Painting: Masterpieces Loaned by the Art Institute of Chicago, cat. no. 3, as Third Beach, Newport.\n\nIL, Durand Art Institute, Lake Forest College, <em>A Century of American Painting: Masterpieces Loaned by The Art Institute of Chicago<\/em>, June 10\u201316, 1957, no. 3, as <em>Third Beach, Newport<\/em>. \n\nArt Institute of Chicago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/exhibitions\/4071\/two-centuries-of-american-art-1750-1950\"><em>Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950<\/em><\/a>, Oct. 1, 1959\u2013Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. 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