Rockwell Kent - part 16

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

Note: Dates were not found for the remainder of works (apart from a few bookplates) in this series so will inevitably date from various periods:

Bookplates (Ex Libris):

1900 Bookplate for Frank H. Whitmore
monochrome engraving 8 x 8 cm
University of Delaware

1920 Bookplate for Katharine Brush
monochrome etching 6.1 x 9.3 cm
University of Delaware Library, Newark, DE

1933 Bookplate for George Norton Northrop
woodcut

Bookplate for Art of America

Ex libris

Bookplate for Bangor Public Library
print on paper 10.1 x 7.6 cm
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine

Bookplate for Elbridge Hadley Stuart,
the son of the founder  of The Carnation ( Milk) Company

Bookplate for Elizabeth Diamond
printed on silk thread paper 25.5 x 20.3 cm

Ex Libris for Erle Stanley Gardner
woodcut

Bookplate for Erle Stanley Gardner
woodcut

Bookplate for Frank H. Whitmore
monochrome engraving 8 x 8 cm
University of Delaware Library

Bookplate for Gardner E. Bostedo

Bookplate for Leo Hart, a printer in Rochester, NY

Bookplate for Stephen Morgan Etnier

Mass-market bookplate

Bookplate
print on paper 7.7. x 5 cm
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine

Bookplate
woodcut design mass produced by lithography

Bookplate, generic design

Ex Libris for Chicago Latin School

Ex Libris for Elizabeth Babbott

Book Plate Design for Nathan G. Horwitt
ink on paper 13.9 x 11.4 cm
Five Colleges and Historic Deerfield Museum Consortium, MA

Book Plate Design for Nathan G. Horwitt
ink on paper 16.5 x 8.5 cm
Five Colleges and Historic Deerfield Museum Consortium, MA

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

Bringing Home the Christmas Tree
lithograph 30.5 x 21.6 cm
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum / Estate of Sally Kent Gordon

Child and Star
wood engraving
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum / Estate of Sally Kent Gordon

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

Fugitives
pen and brush and black ink
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum/Estate of Sally Kent Gordon

Lying in the Flames
woodcut on paper 20.3 x 14 cm

Moby Dick
black ink with pen and graphite on paper 9.5 x 18 cm (image)
Five Colleges and Historic Deerfield Museum Consortium, MA

Monte Darwin, Tierra del Fueo, Chile

Mountain Landscape
oil on canvas 45.7 x 76.2 cm

Asgaard Farm
oil on board 30.5 x 40 cm

Bacchus
tempera and pencil on board 61.6 x 33 cm

Christmas Card
photomechaniacal relief print 14 x 7.9 cm (image)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA

Couple on a Ship, for College Humor magazine
ink on paper 29.8 x 22.2 cm

Cowboy Sitting on Fence
brush and black ink, traces of graphite on off-white wove paper 10.2 x 12.7 cm (image)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA

Eagle
brush and black ink, touched with white on off-white wove paper 4.8 x 5.1 cm (image)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA

Figure of a Nude Man with Halo
photo-etching of original drawing 12.2 x 17.7 cm (image)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA

Girl Jumping a Rope
oil on board 94 x 68.6 cm

n.d. Indian, study for a cover illustration for "Adventure" magazine
watercolour and ink, with pencil under drawing, on card
28.9 x 21.3 cm

Mask
pen and black ink on off-white card 5.2 x 5.2 cm (image) 
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA

Men around a Campfire
brush, pen, and black ink, touched with white on off-white wove paper 5.2 cm diameter
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA

Monhegan Island
oil on canvas-board 30.5 x 40.6 cm

Moonlight, Maritime Alps
oil on canvas 71.1 x 86.7 cm
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC

Nude Male Figure with Bird
brush, pen, and black ink on off-white wove paper 6 x 6.2 cm (image)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA

Rocky Coast, Monhegan Island, Maine
oil on board 25.4 x 30.5 cm

She Learns about the Devil
pen and black ink on buff card 7.1 x 4.9 cm (image)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA

Skaters
oil on canvas

Tranquility
pen and ink on paper 11.4 x 6.3 cm
Five Colleges and Historic Deerfield Museum Consortium, MA

Winged Figure over Mountain Landscape
pen and ink on paper 40.2 x 21.4 cm
Five Colleges and Historic Deerfield Museum Consortium, MA

Wooded Landscape
brush, pen and ink on off-white wove paper 5.4 x 4.4 cm (image)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA

Yendegaia Bay
black ink on paper laid down on board 18 x 23 cm

River Azopardo River
oil on canvas 86.7 x 111.7 cm
The Phillips Collection, Washington

Self-Portrait
offset lithograph 21.3 x 13.9 cm
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA

The Death of the Deer, Adirondack
oil on canvas laid down on hardboard 87 x 105 cm
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

The Full Pitcher
colour woodcut 34.9 x 27.9 cm
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine

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

Tierra del Fuego, South America (Dome Mountain)
oil on canvas 86.4 x 110.8 cm

Train Tunnel
woodcut on off-white wove paper 6.1 x 11.7 cm
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, PA