Postcard c.1914, of Contentment Island. By the early 1870s Kensett was spending considerable time at his home on Contentment Island, on Long Island Sound near Darien, Connecticut.

Trout Fisherman

oil on canvas, 1852. Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum

Upper Mississippi

oil on canvas, 1855. St. Louis Art Museum

The Old Pine, Darien, Connecticut, c. 1872

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City