Bash Bish Falls

Artist John Frederick Kensett (American, 1816-1872)

CultureAmerican

Dateca. 1860

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions18 × 22 1/4 in. (45.7 × 56.5 cm)
Overall, Frame: 27 1/2 × 31 1/2 × 4 in. (69.9 × 80 × 10.2 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Macon and Joan Brock Collection of American Art

Object number2023.4.2

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 212

DescriptionThis is an oil on canvas landscape painting that depicts a mountainous stream, cascading through rocks amidst a dense forest. A wooden bridge traverses the stream in the distance and a small pool forms in the foreground.
ProvenanceHirschl and Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, until 1977 Charles and Alma Shoemaker, acquired from the above until 2007 The Macon and Joan Brock Collection of American Art, 2022 Exhibition HistoryJohn F. Kensett: An American Master, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, July 11–September 8, 1985. "A Shared Vision: The Macon and Joan Brock Collection of American Art," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, December 8, 2023 — March 10, 2024.