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Born March 22, 1816 • Connecticut
Died December 14, 1872 (aged 56) • New York City • New York
Founder Metropolitan Museum of Art
Movement / Style Hudson River school • luminism

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Storm over Lake George, oil on canvas by John Frederick Kensett, 1870; in the Brooklyn Museum, New York City.
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View of Cotopaxi, oil on canvas by Frederic Edwin Church, 1857; in The Art Institute of Chicago.
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James McNeill Whistler
James McNeill Whistler
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Elaine and Willem de Kooning
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Thomas Kinkade
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Portrait of John Singer Sargent in profile, wearing a suit and tie, facing to the right with a trimmed beard and short hair.
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Henry Ossawa Tanner, c. 1905.
Henry Ossawa Tanner
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self-portrait by Grant Wood
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