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 - 5 also.
This is part 6 of a 16-part series on the works of Rockwell Kent:
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| 1926 Bookplate for Louise and Gilbert Lang relief print 7.6 x 5.2 cm (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1926 Child and Lamb wood engraving on paper 27.9 x 22.5 cm Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| 1926 Craigbeefin oil on panel 51.4 x 75.6 cm |
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| 1926 Foreboding lithograph 27.5 x 13.8 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1926 French Alps watercolour on board 26 x 35.9 cm The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| 1926 Harvest watercolour over pencil on white paper 26 x 36 cm (sheet) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York |
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| 1926 House on Cliff, Ireland watercolour over graphite, on heavy weight wove paper 25.4 x 35.7 cm (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1926 Lone Cabin (Old Barn) lithograph 17.5 x 22.4 cm (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1926 Masthead wood engraving 20.3 x 14.1 cm (image) The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio © Plattsburgh State Art Museum/Estate of Sally Kent Gordon |
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| 1926 Moonshine, Ireland brush and black ink over traces of graphite, on cream laid paper 14.3 x 21.6 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1926 Over the Ultimate wood engraving 14 x 20 cm |
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| 1926 Seacoast, Donegal brush and black ink on off-white wove paper 14,4 x 21.9 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1926 Supplication wood engraving The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio © Plattsburgh State Art Museum/Estate of Sally Kent Gordon |
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| 1926 The Irish Sea Coast, Donegal oil on canvas 86.5 x 112 cm The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow |
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| 1926 Twilight of Man wood engraving 14 x 20.3 cm (image) Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA |
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| 1926-27 Dan Ward's Cottage oil on canvas 71.7 x 86.5 cm Amherst College, Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA |
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| 1926-27 Dan Ward's Stack, Ireland oil on canvas 81 x 70 cm |
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| 1926-27 Straboy, Ireland oil on panel 50.8 x 76.2 cml |
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| c1926 Advertisement for Marcus & Company Jewellery pen and ink and gouache on illustration board 11.4 x 23.5 cm |
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| c1926 Bookplate for Ray Slater Murphy relief print 6.8 x 4.8 cm (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| c1926 Cottage in a Landscape watercolour over graphite on off-white wove paper 24.9 x 35.1 cm Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA |
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| c1926 Woman Reaping watercolour over graphite on off-white wove paper 24.7 x 35 cm Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA |
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| 1927 Adventure magazine March 15th 1927 |
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| 1927 Adventure magazine May 1st 1927 |
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| 1927 August XXIII MCMXXVII (August 23rd 1927) woodcut Harvard Art Museums, MA |
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| 1927 Bookplate for Anne Rosenberg relief print 5.6 x 4.8 cm (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1927 Bookplate for Olga Drexel Dahlgren relief print 6.2 x 5.1 cm (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1927 Boy on a Cliff watercolour over graphite on white wove paper 35 x 24.8 cm Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA |
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| 1927 Child and Star wood engraving 8.9 x 5.1 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1927 Child Reaching for Fruit brush, pen, and black ink on off-white laid paper 13.2 x 6.7 cm (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1927 Cover of Adventure magazine May 1 1927 brush, ink, gouache and opaque white on illustration board 27.8 x 19.4 cm (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1927 Dreams and Derisions Published by Nelson Doubleday Hard Cover |
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| 1927 Dreams and Derisions Inside Hard Cover |
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| 1927 Dreams and Derisions Title Page |
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| 1927 Dreams and Derisions Edition Number: 16 |
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| 1927 Dreams and Derisions artwork "Valentine" pen and ink on off-white wove paper 8.1 x 6.7 cm (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1927 Exhibition of Paintings by Rockwell Kent, Wildenstein Galleries photomechanical reproduction poster 34.3 x 25.4 cm © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York |
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| 1927 Forest Pool wood engraving 14 x 20.3 cm |
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| 1927 Imperishable wood engraving 15.9 x 25.4 cm |
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| 1927 Lake Anavrin, Ireland oil on panel 40.5 x 48 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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| 1927 Lobsterman watercolour on off-white paper 24.5 x 34.6 cm Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana |
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| 1927 Mountainous Landscape brush and black ink over traces of graphite, on off-white wove paper 9.5 x 16 cm (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1927 Precipice wood engraving 20.6 x 14.3 cm (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1927 Salmon Water, Ireland oil on panel 40.6 x 50.8 cm Private Collection |
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| 1927 Sturrall, Donegal, Ireland oil on canvas 87 x 112 cm The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia |
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| 1927 The End wood engraving 12.4 x 17.8 cm |
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| 1927 Thy Valentine pen and ink on off-white woe paper 8.3 x 6.7 cm (image ) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1927 Wayside Madonna engraving 26.4 x 14 cm (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| c1927 Illustration for a Poem in McCall's Magazine pen and black ink, wash on off-white wove paper 35.2 x 25.7 cm (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| c1927 Tea with E.T. watercolour and graphite on off-white wove paper 8.1 x 6.7 cm (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1928 Bookplate for Bennett A. Cerf relief print 7 x 5.6 cm (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1928 Bookplate for Chicago Latin School relief print 9.8 x 4.4 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1928 Bookplate for Frances and Rockwell Kent 6.8 x 4.6 cm (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1928 Bookplate for the "Library of the College of Preachers at Washington, DC" relief print 9.7 x 5.6 cm (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1928 Bringing Home the Christmas Tree lithograph 30.8 x 21.7 cm (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1928 Christmas Card colour wood engraving 27.8 x 17 cm (sheet) Five Colleges and Historic Deerfield Museum Consortium, MA |
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| 1928 Climbing the Bars lithograph The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio © Plattsburgh State Art Museum / Estate of Sally Kent Gordon |
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