Rockwell Kent was an American artist best known for his signature, smooth style of landscape painting. Often cited as an early American Modernist, Kent's work focuses on the otherworldly beauty of nature, influenced by Transcendentalism and the mysticism of writers such as Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Kent also made numerous extended visits to international areas of isolated wilderness, including Tierra del Fuego, Alaska, and Greenland, which served as inspiration to his work. His paintings are heavily stylised, with organic forms taking on geometric qualities and contrasting colour relationships. The artist initially graduated with an undergraduate degree in architecture from Columbia University in New York, and later studied composition and design at the Art Students League in 1900 before dedicating himself to painting. Sometime in the 1910s, he purchased an Adirondack farmstead which he named Asgaard from where he continued to work prolifically. He achieved considerable success in the 20th century, garnering awards such as the 1967 reception of the International Lenin Peace Prize from the Soviet Union, along with a monetary prize which Kent donated to the people of Vietnam. Born on June 21, 1882, in Tarrytown, NY, he died in Plattsburgh, NY on March 13, 1971.
For a more comprehensive biography see part 1, and for earlier works see parts 1 & 2 also.
This is part 3 of a 16-part series on the works of Rockwell Kent:
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| 1918-19 Running Water brush and black ink, with scraping, over graphite, on ivory card 24 x 19 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1918-19 (and later reworking) To God oil on canvas laid down on board 86.4 x 71.1 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1918-19 To God brush and ink on off-white wove paper 17.5 x 21.9 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| c1918-19 Landscape with Trees and Mountains brush and black ink, scraping tool on off-white watercolour paper 18.3 x 13.2 cm (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| c1918 Angel oil on glass 19 x 24.4 cm Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| c1918 Maid and Bird oil on glass 24.4 x 18.7 cm Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio 1919 Alaska Drawings: |
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| 1919 Alaska Drawings of Rockwell Kent photomechanical metal relief print with letterpress text 22.2 x 17.6 cm © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York |
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| 1919 Alaska Impression oil on panel 29.9 x 40.6 cm |
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| 1919 Alaska Impression oil on panel 30.2 x 40.3 cm |
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| 1919 Alaska Impression oil on panel 30.2 x 40.6 cm |
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| 1919 Alaska Impression oil on panel 30.5 x 35.6 cm Private Collection |
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| 1919 Alaska Impression oil on panel 30.5 x 35.6 cm |
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| 1919 Alaska Impression oil on panel 30.5 x 40.6 cm |
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| 1919 Alaska oil on panel 30.5 x 33 cm Private Collection |
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| 1919 Alaska, Experience oil on panel 30.5 x 35.6 cm Private Collection |
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| 1919 Alaskan Sunrise oil on canvas 71.1 x 111.7 cm Museum of Art of Ogunquit, Maine |
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| 1919 Bear Glacier oil on canvas 87.2 x 112.7 cm The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas |
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| 1919 Bluebird wood engraving 14.6 x 17.5 cm |
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| 1919 Bookplate for Stephen Morgan Etnier print on paper 9.2 x 7 cm Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine |
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| 1919 Evening Star brush, pen, and black ink, traces of graphite on off-white wove paper 5.1 x 12.7 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1919 In the Wild oil on canvas 71.4 x 86.4 cm American Museum of Western Art, Denver, CO |
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| 1919 Killer Whales in Resurrection Bay, Alaska oil on panel 30.5 x 40.6 cm |
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| 1919 North Wind oil on canvas laid down on panel 10.7 x 86.7 cm The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC |
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| 1919 Over Resurrection Bay, Alaska, Blue and Gold oil on panel 30.5 x 40.3 cm Museum of art the Bowdoin College, Brunswick |
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| 1919 Pioneers (or Into the Sun) oil on canvas 71.1 x 112.4 cm Museum of art the Bowdoin College, Brunswick |
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| 1919 Sunglare, Alaska oil on canvas laid down on plywood 72 x 112 cm The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia |
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| 1919 The Alaska Ice oil on panel 30.5 x 40.6 cm Private Collection |
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| 1919 from "Twelve Prints by Contemporary American Artists" woodcut 48.3 x 35.6 cm |
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| c1919-20 Nude Male Figure and Wing Compass brush, pen, and black ink on off-white wove paper 12.1 x 8.3 cm (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1919-27 Alaska oil on canvas 71.2 x 86.4 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1920 Alaska Impression oil on panel 20.3 x 25.3 cm Private Collection |
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| 1920 Bookplate for Katherine Abbott relief print 4.6 x 3.7 cm (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1920 Bookplate for William A. Kittredge monochrome engraving 6.3 x 6.3 cm University of Delaware Library William Augustus Brewer Bookplate Collection |
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| 1920 Father and Son lithograph 19 x 13 cm The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio © Plattsburgh State Art Museum / Estate of Sally Kent Gordon |
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| 1920 Father and Son Saw Cutting Wood wood engraving 11 x 16 cm |
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| 1920 Man Shooting an Arrow wood engraving 10.3 x 7.3 cm (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1920 Man under a Waterfall wood engraving 7.1 x 3.5 cm (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1920 "Still the Breath Divine Does Move, and the Breath Divine is Love" holiday card relief print brush and pen and black ink over traces of graphite on cream wove paper 20.6 x 13.7 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| Hard Cover |
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| End Papers |
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| End Paper 1 |
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| End Paper 2 |
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| Frontispiece |
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| Home Building |
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| The Snow Queen |
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| Superman |
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| Wilderness |
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| Woman |
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| Foreboding |
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| 1920 The Cabin Window |
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| 1920 The Sleeper published in Kent's Alaska journal "Wilderness." |
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| 1920 Woman graphite on tracing paper 15.2 x 14.3 cm 1927 Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1920 Woman photomechanical reproduction 14.6 x 14 cm (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| Wilderness (details not found) |
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| Fox Island, Resurrection Bay, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska |
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| I Am |
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| Pelagic Reverie |
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| Unknown Waters brush and ink on off-white watercolour paper 16.8 x 24.4 cm (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| The Star Lighter |
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