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 - 3 also.
This is part 4 of a 16-part series on the works of Rockwell Kent:
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| c1920 Bookplate design for Katherine Brush monochrome engraving 9.3 x 6.1 cm University of Delaware Library |
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| c1920 Bookplate design for Carl Zigrosser pen and black ink and black wash on tracing paper 7.6 x 6 cm (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| c1920 Bookplate for Carl Zigrosser relief print 4.6 x 3.5 cm (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| c1920 Bookplate design for E. Weyhe relief print 3.5 x 2.7 cm (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| c1920 Bookplate design for Florence King relief print 3.8 x 3.2 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| c1920 Bookplate design for Kathleen and Rockwell Kent relief print 3.7 x 3 cm (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| c1920 Mephisto Inc. colour relief print 10.2 cm diameter (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| c1920 Vermont Study oil on canvas-board (size not found) Bennington Museum, Vermont |
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| 1920s Ex Libris for The Warner Library |
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| 1921 "1689 to 1921 First Retrospective Exhibition of American Art" poster photomechanical metal relief print image with letterpress text on thin tan cardboard 56 x 32.9 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1921 Boy with Branch and a Bird wood engraving 5.4 x 3.2 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1921 Man Leaning on a Sword wood engraving 4.6 x 2.5 cm (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1921 Mount Equinox, Winter oil on canvas 86.6 x 111.9 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1921 Naked Girl with Deer pencil and watercolour on paper 25.6 x 17.9 cm The Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1921 Nude Child Holding a Candle brush and pen and black ink over traces of graphite, with scraping out, on cream wove paper 13 x 11.6 cm (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1921 Protection woodcut 25.4 x 35.5 cm (image) Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA |
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| 1921 Sundown, Greenland (originally mis-titled; actually Vermont) oil on canvas 71.4 x 112.1 cm Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| 1921 The Great-of-Soul (published inVanity Fair magazine May 1921) brush, pen, and black ink, traces of graphite on tracing paper 15.2 x 8.9 cm (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1921 Vanity Fair magazine illustration photomechanical reproduction 18.9 x 18.3 cm (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1921-23 Shadows of Evening oil on canvas 86.7 x 112.1 cm Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| 1921The Trapper oil on canvas 86.7 x 112.1 cm Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| 1922 Azopardo River oil on canvas 86.6 x 111.7 cm The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC |
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| 1922 Bookplate for Lucie Rosen relief print 5.9 x 3.5 cm (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1922 Twilight of Man from Thomas Hardy's "An Ancient of Ancients" Century magazine illustration |
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| 1926 Twilight of Man from Thomas Hardy's "An Ancient of Ancients" wood engraving 13.9 x 20.1 cm |
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| 1933 Twilight of Man from Thomas Hardy's "An Ancient of Ancients" offset lithograph from a watercolour |
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| 1922-25 Admiralty Sound, Tierra del Fuego oil on canvas 86 x 112 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia |
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| 1922-25 Mountain Lake–Tierra del Fuego oil on panel 39.7 x 51.1 cm The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC |
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| c1922 An Ancient to Ancients pencil, brush and black ink on white wove paper 13 x 20.3 cm (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1923 Amorous Scene brush, pen and ink on cream wove paper 17 x 24.6 cm (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1923 Mountain Ekinoks, Vermont oil on panel (size not given) Private Collection |
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| By 1923 Tierra del Fuego, South America (Dome Mountain) oil on canvas 86.4 x 110.8 cm |
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| 1923 The Commuters (Life magazine 20 December 1923) pen and brush and black ink over traces of graphite on wove paper 16.5 x 12.7 cm (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1923 Vanity Fair magazine cover for May 1923 |
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| 1923-25 Seascape oil on canvas 86.7 x 111.8 cm Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, PA |
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| 1923-27 Green Mountains, Vermont oil on canvas 86.3 x 111.7 cm |
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| 1923-27 Vermont oil on canvas Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT |
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| c1923 Bookplate for George S. Chappell relief print 4 x 3.5 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| c1923 Bookplate for Mary C. Wheelwright relief print 7.3 x 3.8 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| c1923 The Homecoming pen and brush and ink on cream wove paper 13.3 x 10.5 cm (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1924 Absolution photomechanical reproduction of drawing 19 x 12.7 cm (sheet) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1924 Adrift photomechanical reproduction 1.4 x 14.8 cm (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1924 Drawing for an illustration in Life magazine (March 6, 1924) rush, pen, and black ink, traces of graphite, touched with white on off-white board 29.4 x22.9 cm (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1924 Invitation to Playboy's Fête Futuriste photomechanical metal relief print with letterpress type 15.2 x 8.3 cm (sheet) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1924 Madonna and Child photomechanical reproduction for a Christmas Card 23.3 x 15.6 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1924 Our Hope linocut with typeset text 7 x 7.3 cm (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1924 Poster artwork for International Exhibition of Paintings, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh process print 39.1 x 38.7 cm (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1924 Poster for International Exhibition of Paintings, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh |
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| 1924 The Vision "I Am" lithograph, edition of 30 |
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| 1924 The Wanderer photomechanical reproduction 12.1 x 12.7 cm (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| c1924 Diver brush, pen, and black ink, scraping tool on off-white coated card 10.8 x 8.7 cm (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| c1924 St. Augustine photomechanical reproduction 13 x 13.2 cm (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| 1925 Newfoundland Memorial Service oil on canvas 86.7 x 111.7 cm |
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| 1925 Still the Breath Divine does Move And the Breath Divine is Love. wood engraving on cream wove paper 19.1 x 13.7 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1925 Still the Breath Divine Does Move And the Breath Divine is Love holiday card relief print 8.9 x 7.9 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
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| c1925 Bookplate for John Hay Whitney colour relief print 9.2 x 7 cm (image) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA |
