Rockwell kent biography

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    Rockwell Kent (ur. 21 czerwca1882 w Tarrytown, zm. 13 marca1971 w Plattsburgh) – amerykański malarz, grafik, pisarz. Tworzył głównie w dziedzinie grafiki i ilustracje (m.in. do książki Moby Dick). Pisał również książki podróżnicze, autobiograficzne.

    Sygnatariusz apelu sztokholmskiego w 1950 roku.

    W 1967 otrzymał Międzynarodową Leninowską Nagrodę Pokoju.

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    1. ↑Rockwell Kent | Illustrator, Printmaker, Wilderness | Britannica [online], www.britannica.com [dostęp 2024-02-20] (ang.).
    2. ↑Kent Rockwell, [w:] Encyklopedia PWN [online], Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN [dostęp 2024-02-20] .
    3. ↑Dziennik Polski, rok VI, nr 91 (1861), Kraków 1 kwietnia 1950 roku, s. 1.
    4. ↑Lenin Prizes Won By Dr. Niemoller And Rockwell Kent; NIEMOLLER WINS LENIN PEACE PRIZE, „The New York Times”, 1 maja 1967, s. 1, ISSN0362-4331 [dostęp 2024-02-20] (ang.).
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    • Rockwell Kent [1882–1971] was one of those who truly lived more lives than one. Into his long life he crammed more careers than any ordinary man would seriously contemplate. Painter, muralist, illustrator, printmaker, book designer, graphic artist, architect and builder, writer and editor, speaker and lecturer, navigator and restless traveler, political and social activist — he was all these and much more.
    — A Kent Biography, Fridolf Johnson

    For information about the Rockwell Kent Gallery and for copyright and permissions information, please contact:
    Plattsburgh State Art Museum
    Phone: 518-564-2474
    Email: artmuseum@plattsburgh.edu

    The Kent Collection in Special Collections

    In 1974, Sally Kent Gorton presented SUNY Plattsburgh with a representative collection of Rockwell Kent’s works that became the foundation for the college’s Rockwell Kent Collection. In 2000, she donated additional items to the collection, which are referred to as the “Kent Legacies” materials.

    Kent manuscripts, imprints and other ephemera are housed in Special Collections in Feinberg Library. Art-related Kent materials are located in the Rockwell Kent Gallery and Collection.

    The Rockwell Kent Calendar of Imprints and Ephemera

    Full Kent Calendar (PDF)

    1. Works Illustrated by Rockwell Kent
      1. Books Illustrated by Rockwell Kent
      2. Periodicals with Illustrations by Rockwell Kent
    2. Works Written by Rockwell Kent
      1. Books Written by Rockwell Kent
      2. Articles Written by Rockwell Kent
    3. Materials about Rockwell Kent
      1. Books about Rockwell Kent
      2. Articles about Rockwell Kent
      3. Kent Collector Journal (now Rockwell Kent Review) Volume 1 (1974/75) — Current
      4. Video and Audio Recordings
    4. Books and Periodicals in the Library of Rockwell Kent
      1. Books in the Library of Rockwell Kent
      2. Periodicals in the Library of Rockwell Kent
    5. Exhibition Ephemera
      1. Exhibition Catalogs
      2. Exhibition Announcements
      3. Exhibition Invitations
    6. Manuscripts
      1. Miscellaneous
      2. Rockwell Kent Letters to Catherine Mattison, 19

    November, Greenland, 1931-33

    34.125 x 44.125 inches | oil on canvas

    On June 21, 1882, Rockwell Kent was born in Tarrytown Heights, NY to Sara Ann Holgate and Rockwell Kent, Sr. Born into a privileged family, the young Kent attended several of the East Coast’s top private schools. When he was 13, he toured Europe with his aunt Josie Baker, who was a well-educated artist.

    In 1900, he began his art training at the William Merritt Chase Summer School of Art in Shinnecock, Long Island. In the fall, he enrolled in the architecture program at Columbia University. Just prior to his senior year, he dropped out and enrolled fulltime at the New York School of Art, where he studied under painter Robert Henri (1865-1929).

    Following in the footsteps of his mentor, Kent took a painting trip to Monhegan Island, ME in 1905. The island’s vibrant working class attitude and arts community had a lasting effect on Kent. In the following April, he returned to Monhegan and purchased some land. While living there, Kent met his first wife, Kathleen Whiting, a niece of painter Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849-1921). Over the course of the next 13 years, the couple had five children together until their divorce in 1925. Kent married again in 1926 to Frances Lee Higgins, and once more in 1940 to Shirley (“Sally”) Johnstone.

    In 1911, he moved to New York with his family and resumed work as an architectural draftsman. He also exhibited fifteen paintings and twenty-four drawings at the Gallery of the Society of Beaux-Architects, New York. In 1914, Kent made his first trip to Newfoundland with his family. There, he worked on a series of paintings and drawings of the area until the summer of 1915.

    As World War I waged on, the Kents returned to New York and purchased a home on Staten Island. Kent began to regularly submit cartoons to various magazines, such as Harper’s Weekly and Vanity Fair. His drawings were published under the pseudonym &l

    Rockwell Kent was born June 21, 1882, in Tarrytown Heights, New York. Prior to his time spent in Alaska, Kent lived and painted on Monhegan Island off the coast of Maine, and in Newfoundland. There he developed a love for cold, northern climates, fjords, and the isolation of island life.

    In 1908, Kent married Kathleen Whiting and began his struggle to support a growing family. He often relied on his skills as an architect, designer, and builder to earn a living. Kent was a socialist, a pacifist, a lover of German culture, and spoke and read German fluently. World War One, with all its anti-German propaganda, depressed him and made him feel extremely alienated from society. In 1914, he and his family were forced to leave Newfoundland because of his pro-German sentiments. At age 36, his marriage was in trouble and he had spent over 10 years trying to earn a living as a professional artist and felt he was failing. His work was known and respected, but he still had to do odd jobs to support his family. He wondered whether he’d ever earn a living as an artist and occasionally thought of moving to Germany, or even committing suicide.

    His trip to Alaska was perhaps an attempt to salvage his career and prove his artistic worth. His need for solitude, isolation, and escape from depression also brought him to Alaska. “I crave snow-topped mountains, dreary wastes, and the cruel Northern Sea with its hard horizons at the edge of the world where infinite space begins. Here skies are clearer and deeper and, for the greater wonders they reveal, a thousand times more eloquent of the eternal mystery than those of softer lands.”

    Kent and his nine-year-old son, also named Rockwell, arrived in Seward aboard the steamer Admiral Farragut on Saturday, August 14, 1918. He stayed in Seward at the Sexton Hotel for several days inquiring about a suitable place to settle. He sought a location “that combined the quiet dignity of the primitive forest with the excitement of the ever-chang