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Gathering Storm on Long Island Sound, 1872. Oil on canvas.
Oil on canvas · 34 1/4 x 27 1/4 in. (87.6 x 69.2 cm · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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- Museum title
- Gathering Storm on Long Island Sound
- Artist
- John Frederick Kensett (American, Cheshire, Connecticut 1816–1872 New York)
- Date
- 1872
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 34 1/4 x 27 1/4 in. (87.6 x 69.2 cm)
- Credit line
- Gift of Thomas Kensett, 1874
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1816–1872
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.