Shrewsberry, New Jersey. Oil on canvas, 12” x 20”
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The landscape paintings posted “Shrewsberry River, New Jersey.” is a study of the master’s that got me inspired to start doing landscape and plein air painting. 12" x 20" about the same size as the painting he did, 1859.
I believe he was way ahead of his time, before the civil war, the simplicity of his work simple shapes. Shrewsbury River is near Atlantic Highlands and the Gateway National Recreational Area of New Jersey.
“Kensett is a person whose work I’ve loved for a very long time. Kensett’s differ from the other Hudson River School painters because they are radically simple. And what you have in this painting is this wonderful sense of light; emanating light coming up, particularly from the horizon line. Very few details on it: a couple of birds, a couple boats, not much else. And the water is painted so that it’s frozen forever” said Abstract artist Sean Scully regarding Coast Scene with Figures (Beverly Shore), 1869, a work similar in composition at the Wadsworth Atheneum.