Friday 21 April 2023

Rockwell Kent - part 10

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 - 9 also. This is part 10 of a 16-part series on the works of Rockwell Kent:


1930 & 1931 N by E: 


1930 N by E published by New York Literary Guild
cover

1930 N by E "The Lookout"
 wood engraving 20.1 x 14 cm

1930 N by E
Frontispiece

1930 N by E
Title Page


1930 N by E
woodcut illustration

1930 N by E
woodcut illustration

1930 N by E
woodcut illustration

1930 N by E
woodcut illustration

1930 N by E
woodcut illustration

1931 edition N by E


1931 Venus & Adonis by William Shakespeare 
published by the Printing House of Leo Hart, Rochester, NY:

1931 Venus & Adonis by William Shakespeare
Cover

1931 Venus & Adonis by William Shakespeare
Title Page

1931 Venus & Adonis by William Shakespeare

1931 Venus & Adonis by William Shakespeare

1931 Venus & Adonis by William Shakespeare

1931 Venus & Adonis by William Skakespeare
Preparatory Sketch

1931 Venus & Adonis by William Skakespeare studies
brush, pen and ink, red gouache on off-white wove paper
12.5 x 8.1 cm
Philadelphia Musem of Art, PA

1931 Venus & Adonis by William Skakespeare study
graphite on off-white wove paper 8.1 x 13.7 cm (image)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
1931 Venus & Adonis by William Skakespeare study
graphite on tracing paper 11.9 x 15.9 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA

1931 Venus & Adonis by William Skakespeare study
graphite on off-white wove paper 8.1 x 13.7 cm (image)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA


1931-32 Beowulf 
published by Random House 
printed by George C. Miller

1931 Beowulf and Grendel's Mother
lithograph 34.3 x 25.4 cm (image)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA

1931 Beowulf and the Dragon
stone lithograph 34 x 24.5 cm (image)

1931 Beowulf
lithograph on paper 30.8 x 22.9 cm
1931 Beowulf
lithograph on paper 35.3 x 26.7 cm (image)
Smithsonian American Art Museum

1931 Colophon
lithograph 9.2 cm diameter 
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA

1931 Funeral Pyre
lithograph 34.6 x 26 cm (image)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA

1931 Hand Holding Sword
lithograph 18.7 x 18.3 cm (image)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA
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1931 The Bather
wood engraving on paper 13.7 x 20.1 cm
Smithsonian American Art Museum

1931 Sermilik Fjord
colour lithograph 33.3 x 47.6 cm (image)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA

1931 Seated Nude
lithograph 21 x 19.1 cm (image)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA

1931 Sea and Sky
woodcut on paper 25.4 x 16.8 cm

1931 Prometheus Unchained
 lithograph
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum / Estate of Sally Kent Gordon

1931 Prometheus
engraving on paper 10 x 7.1 cm
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

1931 Oarsman
wood engraving on paper
13.8 x 17.7 cm
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

1931 Oarsman: Study for the wood engraving
brush, pen, and black ink, graphite on off-white wove paper 14 x 17.6 cm (image)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA

1931-32 Godspeed
wood engraving 13.7 x 17.6 cm (image)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York

1932 A Funeral Procession, Western Greenland
oil on canvas laid down on plywood 71.6 x 122.5 cm
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

1932 Eternal Rest, North Greenland
oil on canvas laid down on plywood 86 x 111 cm
The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia

1932 Fiord in Northern Greenland, Autumn
oil on canvas laid down on plywood 86.5 x 111.5 cm
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

1932 Greenland Air Mail
wood engraving 4.1 x 3.2 cm (image)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA

1932 Greenland Swimmer
ink on Arches paper 15.9 x 19.1 cm

1932 Greenlanders, near Godhavn
oil on canvas 72 x 87 cm
The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia

1932 Helena
watercolour over traces of graphite 25.4 x 35.6 cm

1932 (or before) Houses, Monhegan Island, Maine
oil on panel 12.2 x 15.9 cm

1932 The Far Horizon
wood engraving 14 x 16.4 cm

1932 The Frozen Fiord, North Greenland
oil on canvas laid down on plywood 87 x 112 cm
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

1932 View of Scandinavia
lithograph 34 x 25.2 cm (image)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA

1932 Women's Work
oil on canvas laid down on plywood 86 x 111 cm
The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia

1932-33 Abandoned House, Greenland (Refuge Hut)
oil on canvas laid down on panel 71.1 x 86.4 cm

1932-33 Cloudy Day, Fjord in Northern Greenland
oil on canvas 86 x 112 cm
The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia

1932-33 March, Greenland
oil on canvas mounted on board 86.3 x 111.7 cm
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA

1932-33 Spring Thaw, Greenland
oil on canvas 87 x 111.8 cm

c1932-33 Ice, Sea and Rock
oil on canvas 66 x 199.4 cm

c1932-35 Greenland
pencil and watercolour on paper 29.3 x 37.5 cm

1933 Advertisement for R.R. Donnelly & Sons Printers
lithograph 29.8 x 23.2 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
© Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA

1933 Big Baby (Greenland Mother)
wood engraving 11.4 x 15.2 cm (image)