A classic
Rockwell Kent situation befell the family when Kent decided in 1914 to expatriate and paint in Newfoundland.
In a gallery devoted to rivers and the ocean, a tugboat by
Rockwell Kent steams down the Hudson, its smoke a juicy swirl of white painted before he found his own austere voice.
Gabe's lackadaisical lifestyle is seen again in
Rockwell Kent of The Big Why.
You'll recognize the artists' names ' Edward Hopper,
Rockwell Kent, John Sloan--and the essays offer further insights on New York culture and artistic sentiment, making LIFE'S PLEASURES a top pick for both New York and college-level art libraries.
The biggest cultural draw in Rockland is The Farnsworth Art Museum, which focuses on art created in or inspired by Maine and includes work by George Bellows,
Rockwell Kent, John Marin and Rockland native Louise Nevelson.
Their analysis also encompasses the work of such well-known artists as
Rockwell Kent, Paul Rand, and Alvin Lustig plus contemporary innovators like Push Pin Studios.
Rockwell Kent: The Mythic and the Modern, Portland (Me.) Museum of Art, through Oct.
Rockwell Kent's Freudian pilgrim portraits show another direction that artistic invention might take, according to Jake Wein's interpretation.
Rockwell Kent is represented in the section on American book-plates and this great artist's work can be further examined in the recently published
Rockwell Kent: The Art of the Bookplate by Don Roberts (San Francisco: Fair Oaks Press, 2003).
These pieces, produced from 1938 to 1940, were designed by artists Walt Disney,
Rockwell Kent amt Don Blanding.
The artists in question include the canonical modernists Arthur Dove, Wyndham Lewis, Man Ray, Max Weber, and Albert Gleizes, as well as individuals whose names likely are less familiar: the sculptors Adolf Wolff, Elie Nadelman, and John Mowbray-Clarke, and the painters and graphic artists
Rockwell Kent, Abraham Walkowitz, Ben Benn, and Robert Minor.
ROCKWELL KENT'S (1882-1971) title for his 617-page autobiography, It's Me, O Lord (1955) is from a spiritual:
"
Rockwell Kent Rediscovered" by Stephen May, in American Arts Quarterly (Spring 2001), P.O.
Traxel, whose previous book was a life of
Rockwell Kent, is more at home with minor topics, with fads, trends, and the trivial-but-telling -- with the personal rivalry between Edison and Westinghouse, the ethos of Omaha businessmen's clubs, the baking and marketing of the Uneeda Biscuit, and magazine pieces addressing such questions as "What becomes of the gentleman in the age of democratic equality?" Consistently amusing, maddeningly myopic, as busy, bright, and inconclusive as a year-end issue of Time, 1898 isn't new light on history, it's history lite.
