Rockwell Kent - part 5

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 - 4 also.

This is part 5 of a 16-part series on the works of Rockwell Kent:

1924 Voyaging (Southward from the Strait of Magellan) by Rockwell Kent, published by Halcyon House, New York:

1923 Portrait of Me (Improved)
pen and brush and black ink on ivory wove paper, laid down on ivory wood pulp laminate board 23.8 x 15.9 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

Cape Valentine

Off Dawson Island

The Kathleen of New York

Wickam Island

Indian Cove

Sailing Free

Corkhill Island

A Closer Look at Haycock Point

Macy Island

Guanaco Pasture

Mountain at the Foot of Fognano

Lake Fognano

Admiralty Sound from The Head

Bridge Across Azapardo River

Near the Timber Line

Half-Cleared Forest

Above Jackson Bay

Admiralty Sound I

Admiralty Sound II

Northward from Three Hummock Island

Wind-Torn Trees

Land Legs

Rainbow Valley

From Francisco's Camp

Tin and Granite

Mount Olivia

Remilino

The House at Harberton

Pasteur Peninsular

Poachers' Cabin, Bailey Island

Westward from the Summit

The Inspector

Berté's Wigwam

The Shore of Bailey Island

Ona Wigwam

1925 The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt 

Flying Stag Press, New York. 

12 Frontispieces are pen, brush, and ink drawings photomechanically reproduced as engravings:

1925 The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova
photomechanical reproduction 19.2 x 13.5 cm (image)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA

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1926 A Sunset Man
woodcut on paper 21.2 x 41.9 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1926 Advertisement for Marcus & Company Jewellery
"Filling the Treasure Chest"

1926 Almost
wood engraving
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum / Estate of Sally Kent Gordon

1926 Angel (study for Angel)
graphite on tracing paper 13 x 16.7 cm (image)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA

1926 Angel
wood engraving on Shogun paper 12.1 x 16.1 cm

1926 Angel "Greetings from the House of Weyhe MCMXXVI"
 wood engraving on cream wove paper 12.2 x 16.1 cm (image)
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1926 Annie McGinley
oil on canvas
Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA