Rockwell Kent - part 13

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 - 12 also. This is part 13 of a 16-part series on the works of Rockwell Kent:

1936 The Complete Works of William Shakespeare:

Cover (1)

Cover (2)

All's Well That Ends Well

Antony and Cleopatra
"Why is my lord enrag'd against his love?"

As You Like It
"O Rosalind! These trees shall be my books"

Coriolanus
"The sorrow that delivers us thus chang'd"

Cymbeline
"By Jupiter, an angel!"

Hamlet
"Alas! poor Yorick."

Henry IV, Part I
"Fare thee well, great heart!"

Henry IV, Part II
"As good a man as he, sir, whoe'er I am"

Henry V
"Then I will kiss your lips, Kate"

Henry VI, Part I
"Bring forth that sorceress, condemn'd to burn"

Henry VI, Part II
"From Ireland thus comes York to claim his right"

Henry VI, Part III
 "A crown to York: —and lords, bow low to him."

Henry VIII
"Sweet partner, I must not yet forsake you."

Julius Caesar
 "Farewell, good Strato—Caesar, now be still"

King John
 "Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones!"

King Lear
 "Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow!"

Love's Labours Lost

Macbeth unpublished illustration for The Complete Works
brush and pen and black ink, black crayon, over traces of graphite, on cream laid paper 23.2 x 17.1 cm (image)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA

Macbeth

Measure For Measure
"And did supply thee at thy garden house in her imagin'd person."

Much Ado About Nothing

O! How they worth with manners may I sing

Othello

Pericles
"These roving thieves serve the great pirate Valdes"

Richard II
"I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world."

Richard III
"A horse! A horse!"

Romeo and Juliet
 "Good-Night, Good-Night!"

The Comedy of Errors
"Who talks within there? ho! open the door."

The Merchant of Venice
"Shed thou no blood: nor cut thou less nor more"

The Merry Wives of Windsor
"He's too big to go in there. What shall I do?"

The Rape of Lucrece

The Taming of the Shrew
"Well, come, my Kate and we will to your father's "

The Tempest
"I have done nothing but in care of thee"

The Winter's Tale
 "He tells her something that makes her blood look out."

Timon of Athens

Titus Andronicus
"Confusion fall—"

Troilus And Cressida
"Tis Troilus! There's a man!"

Two Gentlemen of Verona

Twelfth Night

1937 That Spain's Children May Live
lithograph poster 57.2 x 39.7 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA

1937 Wayside Madonna
engraving
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum/Estate of Sally Kent Gordon

1937 Workers of the World, Unite
wood engraving 20.3 x 14.9 cm
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA

c1937 Asgaard Celestial Brew
alcohol label photomechanical relief print 10.cm diameter
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA

1938 Medal Design for Justice Hugo Black
 pencil and ink wash heightened with white on heavy paperboard 24.1 x 47 cm

1938 Prometheus Unchained
lithograph on paper 35.5 x 28.9 cm (image)
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

c1938 Books Make the Home
lithograph (of wood engraving?) 35.5 x 29.1 cm 
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA

1939 Mountain Landscape
oil on canvas 45.7 x 76.2 cm
Private Collection

1939 Prize Poems 1913-1939
published by Boni And Liveright, New York

1939 Prize Poems 1913-1939
published by Boni And Liveright, New York

1939 The Home Decorator and Color Guide

1939 The Home Decorator and Color Guide

1939 The Home Decorator and Color Guide

1939 The Home Decorator and Color Guide

1939 The Home Decorator and Color Guide