A Woodland Waterfall
Framed: 54 1/8 x 48 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches (137.49 x 123.19 x 13.34 cm)
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Nineteenth Century Landscape Painting and the American Site, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch, New York, June 5–July 31, 1980, no. 31 (as The Flume, Franconia Notch, N.H.).
The Odd Picture: Distinctive and Yet Not Necessarily Predictable Efforts by Recognized Masters, All Modern in Their Several Ways, James Maroney, New York, November 1984, no. 6.
John Frederick Kensett: An American Master, Worcester Art Museum, Mass., March 20, 1985–January 19, 1986 (traveled), unnumbered.
A Bountiful Decade: Selected Acquisitions, 1977–1987, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo., October 15–December 6, 1987, no. 75.
America in Art: Fifty Great Paintings Celebrating Fifty Years, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Calif., June 6–August 11, 1991, unnumbered.
America: The New World in 19th Century Painting, Österreichische Galerie, Belvedere Palace, Vienna, Austria, March 17–June 20, 1999, unnumbered.
A Woodland Waterfall is loosely based on Fawn's Leap, New York, but Kensett altered its appearance for dramatic effect. One change the painter made is visible in the upper left section, where he painted over some trees on a rocky ledge to simplify the composition.
to Dr. Ambrose White Vernon (son of William Vernon), Brookline, Mass., by descent, after 1910;
to Mrs. Agnes Vernon Slagle (niece of Dr. Ambrose White Vernon), Chatham, N.J., by descent, 1951;
to (Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 28 October 1971, lot 126 [as "The Flume, Franconia Notch, New Hampshire"]);
to (Schweitzer Gallery, New York, 1971);
to (Sloan and Schatzberg, New York, July 1973);
Dr. and Mrs. Ronald Sagerman, Great Neck, N.Y.;
to (Alexander Gallery, New York);
to (James Maroney, New York, December 1978);
to NAMA, 1986.
Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, October 28, 1971, lot 126 (as The Flume, Franconia Notch, New Hampshire).
Ian Bennett, A History of American Painting (London: Hamlyn Publishing Group, 1973), 79 (as The Flume, Franconia Notch, N.H.).
Nineteenth Century Landscape Painting and the American Site, exh. cat. (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch, 1980), 16 (as The Flume, Franconia Notch, N.H.).
James H. Maroney Jr., The Odd Picture: Distinctive and Yet Not Necessarily Predictable Efforts by Recognized Masters, All Modern in Their Several Ways, exh. cat. (New York: James Maroney, 1984), 10–11, 15, 44–45.
John Paul Driscoll and John K. Howat, John Frederick Kensett: An American Master, exh. cat. (Worcester, Mass.: Worcester Art Museum, in association with W. W. Norton & Company, 1985), 82–84.
Donald Hoffmann, “Art Journal: At the Nelson,” Kansas City Star, August 24, 1986, 7D.
G. Fred Wickman, “About Town: A Nelson Variety Offered,” Kansas City Times, September 5, 1986, C7;
Independent (Kansas City, Mo.), September 27, 1986, 4;
“American Landscape Acquired by Museum,” Calendar (Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art), September 1986, 1–2, 7.
Carol Ried, “Nelson-Atkins Builds on Its Strengths,” Kansas City View, January 13–26, 1987, 14.
“Woodland Waterfall,” Antique Collector 58 (January 1987), 52.
American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School, exh. cat. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987), 151.
A Bountiful Decade: Selected Acquisitions, 1977–1987. exh. cat. (Kansas City, Mo.: Nelson–Atkins Museum of Art, 1987), 172–73, 263.
Ellen R. Goheen, The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (New York: Harry N. Abrams, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1988), 115, 118, 122.
The Society of Fellows Silver Anniversary (Kansas City, Mo.: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1990), unpaginated.
America in Art: Fifty Great Paintings Celebrating Fifty Years, exh. cat. (Santa Barbara, Calif.: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1991), 8, 64–65.
Henry Adams, Handbook of American Paintings in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Mo.: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1991), 5, 88–89.
Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collections. 6th ed. (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 228, 235, 408.
Michael Churchman and Scott Erbes, High Ideals and Aspirations: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art 1933–1993 (Kansas City, Mo.: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 109, 228, 234, 408.
Stephan Koja, ed., America: The New World in 19th Century Painting, exh. cat. (Munich: Prestel, 1999), 93, 285.
Calendar (Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art), Winter 2002, 8.
