Friday 14 April 2023

Rockwell Kent - part 7

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 - 6 also.

This is part 7 of a 16-part series on the works of Rockwell Kent:


1928 Candide by Voltaire 

published by Random House, New York 

pen and ink illustrations:


Embossed Hard Cover


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1928 Flame
wood engraving on wove paper 20.5 x 14.1 cm (image)
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum/Estate of Sally Kent Gordon

1928 J.C. Cowdin Dinner Invitation
colour lithograph 15.2 x 10.2 cm (image)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA

1928 Memory
chiaroscuro lithograph 37.2 x 48.9 cm

1928 Pasture Gate
 lithograph
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum/Estate of Sally Kent Gordon

1928 Revisitation
lithograph 21.6 x 34.7 cm (image)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA

1928 Roof Tree
lithograph
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum/Estate of Sally Kent Gordon

1928 Seated Figure
brush, pen, and black ink, traces of graphite on off-white wove paper 10.2 x 10.2 cm (image)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA

1928 Sermilik Fiord, Greenland
oil on canvas laid down on panel 50.8 x 61 cm
Private Collection

1928 The Lovers
wood engraving on paper 16.7 x 25.6 cm
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

1928 The Tree
lithograph
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum/Estate of Sally Kent Gordon

1928 Top
lithograph on paper 30.5 x 18.5 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1928 Waldo Pierce
 transfer lithograph on zinc  24.8 x 18.7 cm (image)

1928 Woman Gathering Fruit
brush, pen and ink on off-white card 9.5 x 9.5 cm (image)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA

c1928 Bookplate for George Milburn
relief print 8.7 x 5.1 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA

1929 Almost
wood engraving 13.7 x 8.6 cm (image) 
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA

1929 Boatman
lithograph 34.9 x 25.4 cm (image)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA

1929 Bookplate for J.B. Neumann
relief print 9 x 6.2 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA

1929 Christian Graves
oil on canvas 72 x 77 cm
The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia

1929 Convalescent
(photomechanical reproduction of brush drawing)
 39.1 x 29.3 cm
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA

1929 Greenland Tryst
oil on canvas 86 x 112 cm

1929 Man at Mast
wood engraving
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum / Estate of Sally Kent Gordon

1929 Man with Plough
woodcut on paper 6.1 x 11.7 cm (image)
Five Colleges and Historic Deerfield Museum Consortium, MA

1929 Meditation
lithograph 26.7 x 18.7 cm (image)
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum / Estate of Sally Kent Gordon
 
1929 Mountain reflecting in the Water, South Greenland
oil on canvas laid down on plywood 86 x 115 cm

1929 Night Watch study
graphite on off-white wove paper 21.4 x 15.1 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA

1929 Night Watch
wood engraving 20 x 13.8 cm (image)
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum / Estate of Sally Kent Gordon

1929 Portrait of T. M. Cleland
lithograph 24.8 x 17.8 (image)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA

1929 Resting
lithograph
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum / Estate of Sally Kent Gordon

1929 Steel Plant
woodcut on paper 6.2 x 11.8 cm
Five Colleges and Historic Deerfield Museum Consortium, MA

1929 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
front hard cover

1929 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
back hard cover

1929 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

1929 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
paperback cover

1929 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
paperback title page

1929 The Evening
lithograph on paper 35.3 x 26.9 cm
Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC

1929 Waiting Dating
oil on canvas 86 x 112 cm
The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia

1929-30 Concrete Bridge
woodcut on off-white wove paper 6.3 x 11.9 cm
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, PA

1929-30 Dynamos
woodcut on off-white wove paper 6.3 x 11.9 cm
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, PA

1929-30 Foundry
woodcut on off-white wove paper 6.1 x 11.9 cm
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, PA

1929-30 Grain Elevators
woodcut on off-white wove paper 6.1 x 11.7 cm
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, PA

1929-30 Negro
woodcut on off-white wove paper 6.1 x 11.5 cm
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, PA

1929-30 Steel Plant
woodcut on off-white wove paper 6.1 x 11.7 cm
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, PA

1929-30 Storm
woodcut on off-white wove paper 6.1 x 11.9 cm
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, PA

1929-30 Two Locomotives
woodcut on off-white wove paper 6.3 x 11.9 cm
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, PA

1929-30 Two Ships
woodcut on off-white wove paper 6.1 x 11.9 cm
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, PA

1929-30 Waterfall and Bridge
woodcut on off-white wove paper 6.3 x 11.7 cm
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, PA

1929-30 Woodchoppers
woodcut on off-white wove paper 6.1 x 11.7 cm
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, PA

c1929 Bookplate for Charles and Rosamond Denby
relief print 10 x 7.5 cm (image)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA

c1929 Bookplate for Edward Price Ehrich
7 x 5.4 cm (image)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, US