Artist

David Johnson Kennedy

Portrait of David Johnson Kennedy
Portrait of David Johnson Kennedy

David Johnson Kennedy is a Realism painter. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Metropolitan Museum of Art.

This guy moonlighted as a church organist to pay the rent while he sketched New York harbor at night, when the water had that green-black glow under gas lamps. One winter he froze his fingers to get the right reflection on a moonlit pier, then layered pastel over graphite like frost on glass. Tap his Entrance to Harbor, Moonlight to see the city breathing.

Works by David Johnson Kennedy

Collections represented

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