Rockwell Kent Art
American, 1882-1971
Rockwell Kent, (1882-1971) was born in Plattsburgh, New York). As a painterand printmaker his work was captured scenes of nature and adventure with a sense of drama that made him one of the most popular American artists of the first half of the 20th century.
Kent studied architecture at Columbia University but turned to painting and was a pupil of William M. Chase, Robert Henri, and Abbott Thayer. Best known as an artist and illustrator he worked as an architectural draftsman, as a lobsterman and carpenter on the coast of Maine, and as a ship’s carpenter. He explored the waters about Tierra del Fuego in a small boat and lived in Newfoundland, Alaska, and Greenland, drawing heavily upon these experiences for his paintings and travel books. Kent’s human figures, which appear sparingly in his work, often signify mythic themes, such as heroism, loneliness, and individualism.(Biography provided by Warnock Fine Arts)
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“Beowulf”
By Rockwell Kent
Located in Warren, NJ
Rockwell Kent (American 1882-1971), Beowulf, Lithograph, 1931
Overall: 18 1/4 by 14 1/4 inches
Sight: 14 5/8 by 10 5/8 inches
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By Rockwell Kent
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This rare and striking Art Deco fabric panel, featuring a running deer in a forest expressed in rich red and maize, was designed by Rockwell Kent for Bloomcraft Inc. in 1950. The de...
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"Figure Study" Rockwell Kent, American Modernism, Work on Paper
By Rockwell Kent
Located in New York, NY
Rockwell Kent
Figure Study
Estate stamped lower right
Ink on paper
6 x 10 inches
Rockwell Kent, though best known as an artist and illustrator, pursued many careers throughout his long life, including architect, carpenter, explorer, writer, dairy farmer, and political activist. Born in Tarrytown, New York, Kent was interested in art from a young age. These ambitions were encouraged by his aunt Jo Holgate, an accomplished ceramicist. Jo came to live with the family after Kent’s father passed away in 1887 and took him to Europe as a teenager. Kent attended the Horace Mann School in New York City, where he excelled at mechanical drawing. His family’s financial circumstances prevented him from pursuing career in the fine arts, however, and after graduating from Horace Mann in 1900, Kent decided to study architecture at Columbia University.
Before matriculating at Columbia, Kent spent the first of three consecutive summers studying painting at William Merritt Chase’s art school in Shinnecock Hills, Long Island. There he found a community of mentors and fellow students who encouraged him to pursue his interest in art. At the end of Kent’s third summer at Shinnecock, Chase offered him a full scholarship to the New York School of Art, where he was a teacher. Kent began taking night classes at the art school in addition to his architecture studies, but soon left Columbia to study painting full time. In addition to Chase, Kent took classes with Robert Henri (American, 1865 - 1929) and Kenneth Hayes Miller (American, 1876 - 1952). His classmates included the artists George Bellows (American, 1882 - 1925) and Edward Hopper (American, 1882 - 1967).
Kent spent the summer of 1903 assisting the painter Abbott Handerson Thayer (American, 1849 - 1921) at his studio in Dublin, New Hampshire—a position he secured through the recommendation of his Aunt Jo. Thayer gave the young artist time to pursue his own work, and that summer Kent painted several views of the New Hampshire landscape, including Mount Monadnock. In 1905 Kent moved from New York to Monhegan Island in Maine, home to a summer art colony, where he continued to find inspiration in the natural world. Kent soon found success exhibiting and selling his paintings in New York and in 1907 was given his first solo show at Claussen Galleries. The following year he married his first wife, Kathleen Whiting (Thayer’s niece), with whom he had five children. The couple divorced in 1924, and Kent married Frances Lee the following year. They in turn divorced after 15 years of marriage, and the artist then married Sally Johnstone.
For the next several decades, Kent lived a peripatetic lifestyle, settling in several locations in Connecticut, Maine, and New York. During this time he took a number of extended voyages to remote, often ice-filled, corners of the globe, including Newfoundland, Alaska, Tierra del Fuego, and Greenland, to which he made three separate trips. For Kent, exploration and artistic production were twinned endeavors, and his travels to these rugged, rural locales provided inspiration for both his visual art and his writings. He developed a stark, realist landscape style in his paintings and drawings that revealed both nature’s harshness and its sublimity. Kent’s human figures, which appear sparingly in his work, often signify mythic themes, such as heroism, loneliness, and individualism. Important exhibitions of works from these travels include the Knoedler Gallery’s shows in 1919 and 1920, featuring Kent’s Alaska drawings...
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Early 20th Century Rockwell Kent Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
Rockwell Kent Original Wood Engraving, 1931 - Diver
By Rockwell Kent
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) wood engraving in excellent condition titled: Diver.
Created 1931. Edition size: 150. Image measures: 7 7/8"h x 5 3/8"w.
The print is unframed and present...
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Mid-20th Century Rockwell Kent Art
Materials
Paper
'Mountain Climber' — 1930s American Modernism
By Rockwell Kent
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Rockwell Kent, 'Mountain Climber', wood engraving, 1933, edition 250, Burne Jones 93. Signed in pencil. A brilliant, black impression, on cream, wove Japan paper; the full sheet with margins (2 9/16 to 3 5/8 inches); slight skinning at the top sheet edge verso, where previously hinged; otherwise, in excellent condition. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 7 7/8 x 5 7/8 inches (200 x 149 mm); sheet size 14 x 11 1/8 inches (356 x 283 mm).
Printed by Pynson Printers, New York. Distributed by The Print Club of Cleveland, Publication No. 11, 1933.
Literature: 'Rockwellkentiana,' Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1933. '101 of The World’s Greatest Books', edited by Spencer Armstrong, 1950.
Impressions of this work are held in the following museum collections: Akron Art Institute, Burne Jones Collection, IL; Cincinnati Art Museum; Cleveland Museum of Art; Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; Davis Museum at Wellesley College; Fine Art Museums of San Francisco; H. M. de Young Museum; Hermitage Museum; Kent Collection, NY; Library of Congress; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester; Metropolitan Museum of Art; New York Public Library; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Princeton University Library; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Spector Collection, NY; SUNY, Plattsburg.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), though best known as a painter, graphic artist, and illustrator, pursued many careers throughout his life, including architect, carpenter, explorer, writer, dairy farmer, and political activist. Born in Tarrytown, New York, Kent was interested in art from a young age. These ambitions were encouraged by his aunt Jo Holgate, an accomplished ceramicist. Jo came to live with the family after Kent’s father passed away in 1887 and took him to Europe as a teenager, undoubtedly kindling his interest in exploring the world.
Kent attended the Horace Mann School in New York City, where he excelled at mechanical drawing. His family’s financial circumstances prevented him from pursuing a career in the fine arts; however, after graduating from Horace Mann in 1900, Kent decided to study architecture at Columbia University.
Before matriculating at Columbia, Kent spent the first of three consecutive summers studying painting at William Merritt Chase’s art school in Shinnecock Hills, Long Island. There he found a community of mentors and fellow students who encouraged him to pursue his interest in art. At the end of Kent’s third summer at Shinnecock, Chase offered him a full scholarship to the New York School of Art, where he was a teacher. Kent began taking night classes at the art school in addition to his architecture studies but soon left Columbia to study painting full-time. In addition to Chase, Kent took classes with Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller, where his classmates included the artists George Bellows and Edward Hopper.
Kent spent the summer of 1903 assisting the eccentric painter Abbott Handerson Thayer at his studio in Dublin, New Hampshire—a position he secured through the recommendation of his Aunt Jo. Thayer’s naturalist lifestyle and almost mystical appreciation for natural phenomena greatly influenced Kent; he returned to Dublin for many years to visit Thayer and his family. Thayer gave the young artist time to pursue his work, and that summer Kent painted several views of the New Hampshire landscape, including Mount Monadnock. In 1905 Kent moved from New York to Monhegan Island in Maine, home to a summer art colony, where he continued to find inspiration in nature. Kent soon found success exhibiting and selling his paintings in New York, and in 1907, he was given his first solo show at Claussen Galleries. The following year he married his first wife, Kathleen Whiting (Thayer’s niece), with whom he had five children. The couple divorced in 1924, and Kent married Frances Lee the following year. They divorced after 15 years of marriage, and the artist married Sally Johnstone.
For the next several decades, Kent lived a peripatetic lifestyle, settling in several locations in Connecticut, Maine, and New York. During this time he took several extended voyages to remote, often ice-filled, corners of the globe, including Newfoundland, Alaska, Tierra del Fuego, and Greenland, to which he made three separate trips. For Kent, exploration and artistic production were twinned endeavors, and his travels to these rugged, elemental locations inspired his visual art and his writings. He developed a stark, realist landscape style in his paintings and drawings that revealed both nature’s harshness and its sublimity. Kent’s human figures, which appear sparingly in his work, often allude to the mythic themes of isolation, individualism, heroism, and the quest for self-connection. Important exhibitions of works from these travels include the Knoedler Gallery’s shows in 1919 and 1920, featuring Kent’s Alaska drawings...
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1930s American Modern Rockwell Kent Art
Materials
Woodcut
Farewell
By Rockwell Kent
Located in Detroit, MI
Pencil signed on front.
Paper size is 9 1/4"x7.5"
Category
1930s Modern Rockwell Kent Art
Materials
Lithograph
Rockwell Kent Taming of the Shrew Lithograph
By Rockwell Kent
Located in Seguin, TX
Lithograph on paper signed Rockwell Kent (American, 1882-1971), Taming of the Shrew from the Doubleday portfolio Forty Drawings done by Rockwell Kent to Illustrate the Works of William Shakespeare...
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Paper
'The Bather' — 1930s American Modernism
By Rockwell Kent
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Rockwell Kent, 'The Bather', wood engraving, 1931, edition 120, Burne Jones 63. Signed in pencil. A brilliant, black impression, on cream, wove Japan paper; the full sheet with margins (2 1/2 to 3 1/4 inches); slight skinning at the top sheet edge, verso, otherwise in excellent condition. Image size 5 3/8 x 7 7/8 inches (137 x 200 mm); sheet size 11 1/8 x 14 1/2 inches (283 x 368 mm). Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
Impressions of this work are held in the following public collections: Burne Jones Collection, IL; Chegodaev Collection, Moscow; Kent Collection, NY; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Princeton University Library, NJ; Pushkin Museum, Moscow; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Spector Collection, NY.
Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), though best known as a painter, graphic artist, and illustrator, pursued many careers throughout his life, including architect, carpenter, explorer, writer, dairy farmer, and political activist. Born in Tarrytown, New York, Kent was interested in art from a young age. These ambitions were encouraged by his aunt Jo Holgate, an accomplished ceramicist. Jo came to live with the family after Kent’s father passed away in 1887 and took him to Europe as a teenager, undoubtedly kindling his interest in exploring the world.
Kent attended the Horace Mann School in New York City, where he excelled at mechanical drawing. His family’s financial circumstances prevented him from pursuing a career in the fine arts; however, after graduating from Horace Mann in 1900, Kent decided to study architecture at Columbia University.
Before matriculating at Columbia, Kent spent the first of three consecutive summers studying painting at William Merritt Chase’s art school in Shinnecock Hills, Long Island. There he found a community of mentors and fellow students who encouraged him to pursue his interest in art. At the end of Kent’s third summer at Shinnecock, Chase offered him a full scholarship to the New York School of Art, where he was a teacher. Kent began taking night classes at the art school in addition to his architecture studies but soon left Columbia to study painting full-time. In addition to Chase, Kent took classes with Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller, where his classmates included the artists George Bellows and Edward Hopper.
Kent spent the summer of 1903 assisting the eccentric painter Abbott Handerson Thayer at his studio in Dublin, New Hampshire—a position he secured through the recommendation of his Aunt Jo. Thayer’s naturalist lifestyle and almost mystical appreciation for natural phenomena greatly influenced Kent; he returned to Dublin for many years to visit Thayer and his family. Thayer gave the young artist time to pursue his work, and that summer Kent painted several views of the New Hampshire landscape, including Mount Monadnock...
Category
1930s American Modern Rockwell Kent Art
Materials
Woodcut
Man at Mast
By Rockwell Kent
Located in New Orleans, LA
A lookout starkly rendered in the art deco style straddles the mast of a ship as he surveys the landscape. Rockwell Kent's wood engraving issued in 1930 in an edition of 120. it is ...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Rockwell Kent Art
Materials
Wood, Engraving
Rare Rockwell Kent for Chase Bacchus Art Deco Copper Cigarette Box
By Rockwell Kent, Chase Brass and Copper Company
Located in St. Louis, MO
Rockwell Kent (American, 1882-1971) Rare Bacchus Art Deco copper cigarette box for Chase Chrome & Brass company, only offered in 1935 and 1936.
Rockwell Kent designed only three items for chase, all with the same young Bacchus motiff, and all are considered rare today. The other two were a "Wine cooler" and "Wine bottle stand...
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1930s American Art Deco Vintage Rockwell Kent Art
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Rockwell Kent, Four Bookplates (on one sheet)
By Rockwell Kent
Located in New York, NY
Proof sheet with four wood engraved book plates by Rockwell Kent. Possibly for a book on this subject published in 1937. There are pencil numbers under each image that probably indic...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Rockwell Kent Art
Materials
Woodcut
'Sea And Sky' — 1930s Modernism
By Rockwell Kent
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
A brilliant, black impression, on cream wove Japan; the full sheet with margins (2 to 2 1/2 inches), in excellent condition. Edition 150. Signed in pencil. Matted to museum standards...
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1930s American Modern Rockwell Kent Art
Materials
Woodcut
Chase Art Deco Chrome Champagne Ice Bucket Lurelle Guild Rockwell Kent Design
By Rockwell Kent, Chase Brass and Copper Company
Located in Chicago, IL
This chrome-plated champagne bucket has a Classic Art Deco style. The top edge is stepped and trimmed with a ribbed band; the front is adorned with a decorative plaque depicting Bacc...
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1930s American Art Deco Vintage Rockwell Kent Art
Materials
Chrome
TWELVE PRINTS BY CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN ARTISTS
By Rockwell Kent
Located in Portland, ME
Kent, Rockwell, et al.
TWELVE PRINTS BY CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN ARTISTS.
Edited by Carl Zigrosser (1891-1975) and designed by Bruce Rogers (1870-1957) and printed by Edwin Rudge on watermaked Japan paper.
Published by E. Weyhe, NY, 1919.
Edition of 115 copies, of which 15 were reserved for the artists and collaborators, and 100 were for sale, this being one of the latter.
Folio (19 x 14 inches, 48 x 36 cm.), cloth portfolio with title label,
Title page, two pages of text by Zigrosser, Table of Contents and twelve plates of varying sizes, each signed by the artist.
Erhard Weyhe (1883-1972) established the Weyhe Galley at 794 Lexington Avenue in New York in 1919, with Zigrosser as the Director. In addition to dealing in art, the gallery published prints, singly and in portfolios, usually of the work of emerging American Modernists. This portfolio, dating from the first year of Weyhe Gallery's existence was the first of these publications. Zigrosser engaged Bruce Rogers to design the portfolio, and also personally sought out the artists, visited their studios and selected the works to be included in "Twelve Prints."
Blue Bird was Rockwell Kent's first published print (Burne-Jones 1)
The Copyist at the Metropolitan (Morse 148) was being worked on when Zigrosser visited, and its inclusion in the portfolio preceded Sloan's own edition.
The full list of artists and the titles and media of their works is as follows:
Earl Horter - The Dark Tower, etching
Rockwell Kent - Blue-bird, wood engraving
William Auerbach-Levy - Tony, etching
Kenneth Hayes Miller - The Bather, drypoint
Jerome Myers - Springtime, drypoint
Walter Pach...
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American Art Deco Chrom Champagne Bucket
By Rockwell Kent, Chase Brass and Copper Company
Located in New York, NY
American Art Deco chrome plated champagne bucket with geometric shape & fluted trim with ring handles; panel with figure & 2 deer designed by Rockwell Kent (CHASE) (Ref: Magazine Ant...
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1930s American Art Deco Vintage Rockwell Kent Art
Materials
Chrome
1930s Rockwell Kent Bacchus Copper Cigarette Box Chase Art Deco Relief Sculpture
By Rockwell Kent, Chase Brass and Copper Company
Located in Hyattsville, MD
"An incredibly rare piece of American Art Deco history. A "Bacchus" cigarette box designed by Rockwell Kent (American, 1882-1971) for the Chase Company. On...
Category
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Rockwell Kent Art
Materials
Copper
Hail and Farewell
By Rockwell Kent
Located in Missouri, MO
Rockwell Kent
"Hail and Farewell" 1930
Wood Engraving on Paper
Signed in Pencil Lower Right
Sheet Size: 14 3/8 x 11 1/4 in.
Image Size: 8 x 5 1/2 in.
Framed Size: 17.5 x 13.5 in.
Growing up in a genteel family in New York City, Rockwell Kent was a member of the rugged realist school of landscape painters as well as a popular illustrator and printmaker. His 1930 illustrations for Moby Dick are among his most lasting achievements. He was the first American artist to have work exhibited in the Soviet Union, a reflection of his Communist Party sympathies, which earned him the Lenin Peace Prize in 1967. This espousal of radical politics caused his career to suffer badly in the '50s because his leftist views caused him disdain among many Americans. However, his work, reflecting both realism and modernism, has earned increasing attention from American art historians.
His subject matter is wide-ranging including scenes of Maine's Monhegan Island, the Adirondack Mountains, book illustrations, and commercial art renderings for companies including General Electric, Rolls Royce, and Westinghouse. Although his first love was painting, in addition to illustration, he also did fabric, ceramic, and jewelry designs, and spent time as a dairy farmer, carpenter, home builder, and lobster fisherman...
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1930s American Modern Rockwell Kent Art
Materials
Woodcut
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Medium: Lithograph
Signed: Pencil Lower Right
Condition: Good, with slight toning of paper
Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.5 unframed, 15.5 x 13 framed
Detailed art deco lithograph of the classical romance & tragedy tale between Mark Antony...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Rockwell Kent Art
Materials
Lithograph
STARRY NIGHT
By Rockwell Kent
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ROCKWELL KENT (1882-1971)
STARY NIGHT, 1933 (Burne-Jones 13)
Wood engraving signed in pencil, edition 1750. 7 x 5 inches. Full margins with deckle edges on 3 sides. Sheet 9 7/8 x 7 ...
Category
1930s American Modern Rockwell Kent Art
Materials
Woodcut
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