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Rockwell Kent

(American, 1882–1971)

Rockwell Kent

Beowulf and the Dragon, 1931

800 USD

Rockwell Kent

Beowulf and Grendel's Mother, 1931

800 USD

Rockwell Kent

Antony and Cleopatra, 1936

275 USD

Biography

Timeline

1882: Born: in Tarrytown, New York
1900: Graduated from the Horace Mann School, New York, NY
Attended William Merritt Chase Summer School of Art, Shinnecock, Long Island, NY
Enrolled in Columbia University and studied architecture, New York, NY
1901 - 1902: Attended William Merritt Chase Summer School of Art, Shinnecock, Long Island, NY
1903: Left Columbia and attended New York School of Art full-time, New York, NY
Studied with Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller
Studied with Abbott Thayer, in NH during the summer
Began work with Ewing & Chappell, Architects, in New York (provides intermittent employment as an architectural draftsman for following ten years
Began relationship with George Chappell, forming a team of satirist––Kent under the pseudonym, Hogarth, Jr.––illustrated Life, Puck, Vanity Fair, and other publications throughout the teens and 1920s)
1905: Moved to Monhegan Island, ME, which remains his permanent address until 1910
1910: Taught at Monhegan Summer School of Art, Monhegan Island, ME; Travels to Newfoundland, Canada
1911: Moved to New York with his family and resumed work as an architectural draftsman
Opens summer school of art in Richmond, NH
1914 - 1915: Moved to Newfoundland
1916: Began submitting drawings to Harper’s Weekly and Vanity Fair under the pseudonym “Hogarth, Jr.”
1918: Gained early membership in the Whitney Studio Club, New York, NY; Travelled to Alaska
1919: Returned to New York, NY. Established Rockwell Kent, Inc. (dissolved in 1922)
1920: Published Wilderness: A Quiet Adventure in Alaska, launching his career as both a respected book illustrator and a writer
1922 - 1923: Traveled to Tierra del Fuego to paint
1925: Traveled to France to paint
1927 - 1928: Worked as editor for Creative Arts magazine
1930: Cape Dennis (MA) Cinema mural. Largest painting on canvas to date
Moby-Dick published with Kent illustrations. Renews interest in Melville's work, and becomes a landmark in American illustrated books
1937: Duo Postal Service murals mounted in the Benjamin Franklin Library, Washington, DC (sets off prolonged sociopolitical controversy).
1953: Appeared before Senator Joseph McCarthy and Permanent Investigations Subcommittee
1958: Won "Right to Travel" case in the U.S. Supreme Court
1966: Named to the Academy of the Arts of the U.S.S.R.
1967: Received the Lenin Peace Prize, Russia
1971: Died: Plattsburgh, New York

Exhibitions

2012: Richard F. Brush Art Gallery and Owen D. Young Library, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME [Nationally touring exhibition] Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia, PA
Rockwell Kent's 'Egypt': Shadow and Light in Vermont, Bennington Museum, Vermont (solo)
2009: Peabody Essex Museum. Salem, MA
Childs Gallery, Boston, MA
2008 - 2009: Rockwell Kent: This is My Own, The New York State Museum, New York, NY (solo)
From Impressionism to Modernism - American Paintings from the Farnsworth Art Museum, 1885-1935, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
Intrepid and Inventive: Illustrations by Rockwell Kent, Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, PA (solo)
2007 - 2008: Political Art of Rockwell Kent, Rockwell Kent Gallery, Plattsburgh, NY (solo)
2006: 100 Drawings by Rockwell Kent, Burke Gallery, Plattsburgh State University of New York, NY (solo)
2005 - 2007: 75th Anniversary of Publication of Moby Dick, Illustrations by Rockwell Kent, Rockwell Kent Gallery, Plattsburgh, NY (solo)
2004 - 2005: Rockwell Kent: The Mythic and the Modern, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Rockwell Kent: Still Photos of an Active Man, Rockwell Kent Gallery, Plattsburgh, NY (solo)
2004: Seeing Red: Rockwell Kent and the Farnsworth Art Museum, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
2003: Rockwell Kent, The Art of the Bookplate, Rockwell Kent Gallery, Plattsburgh, NY (solo)
2002: Generations Artistic Influence of an American Master, Rockwell Kent, Burke Gallery, Plattsburgh State University of New York, NY;Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2001: Distant Shores: The Odyssey of Rockwell Kent, The Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, AK (solo)
1999 - 2001: Commercialism and Idealism Rockwell Kent, Bringing Art to Advertising, Rockwell Kent Gallery, Plattsburgh, NY (solo)
1999 - 2000: Adirondack Museum, Blue Mountain Lake, NY
1998: Monhegan Island Museum. Monhegan Island, ME
1997: Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY
1995: Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
1991: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH [Nationally touring exhibition]
1989: ACA Galleries, New York, NY
1987: Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada [Traveled throughout Canada]
1985 - 1986: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA [Nationally traveling exhibition]
1982 - 1983: Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada [Traveled in Canada]
1982: Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Rockwell Kent Gallery, SUNY-Plattsburgh, NY
1977: Hammer Galleries, New York, NY
1975: Associated American Artists, World Trade Center, Larcada Gallery, all New York, NY
1974: The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY
1971: Weyhe Gallery, New York, NY
1969: Retrospective, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME (solo)
1966: Harbor Gallery, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, NY
Larcada Gallery,New York, NY
1960: Academy of Art, Moscow, Russia (solo)
Delaware Art Center, Wilmington, DE
1958: Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Moscow (solo)
1957: Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia (solo)
1956: Gropper Art Galleries, Cambridge, MA
1955: Art of Today Gallery, New York, NY
1950: Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Rockland, ME
1946: The Century Association, New York, NY
1942: Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, NY
A.B. Clossom, Jr., Company, Cincinnati, OH
Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1941: Society of Independent Artists, New York, NY
Harlow, Keppel, and Company, New York, NY
1940: Meinhard-Taylor Galleries, Houston, TX
Weyhe Gallery, New York, NY
1939: Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
1938: Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
1937: Pynson Printers, New York, NY
Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, New York, NY
Rochester Public Library, New York, NY
Gallery of Modern Masters, Washington, DC
1936: Society of Independent Artists, New York, NY
1934: Milwaukee Art Institute, Milwaukee, MN
The Print Rooms, Los Angeles, CA
Art Gallery of Toronto (later Ontario), Toronto, Canada
National Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
Macbeth Gallery, New York, NY
Old White Art Gallery, White Sulphur Springs, WV
1933: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1932: Pynson Printers, New York, NY
Kennedy and Company, New York, NY
1931: Kennedy and Company, New York, NY
1930: Weyhe Gallery, New York, NY
R.R. Donnelley and Company, Lakeside Press, Chicago, IL
Kennedy and Company, New York, NY
1929: Pynson Printers, New York, NY
1928: Pynson Printers, New York, NY
East West Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1927: Weyhe Gallery, New York, NY
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, NY
1926: Weyhe Gallery, New York, NY
1925: Wildenstein Galleries, New York, NY
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia , PA
1924: Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
Arts Club, Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Retrospective, Wildenstein Galleries, New York, NY (solo)
Weyhe Gallery, New York, NY
1921: Retrospective Exhibition of American Art, New York, NY
1920: M. Knoedler and Company, New York, NY
1919: M. Knoedler and Company, New York, NY
1918: John Wanamaker department store, New York, NY
1917: Daniel Gallery, New York, NY
Society of Independent Artists, New York, NY
1915: Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, CA
1914: National Arts Club, New York, NY
1913: Public Library, Winona, MN
1911: Gallery of the Society of Beaux-Architects, New York, NY
Gallery of Fine Arts and Art Association, Columbus, OH
Union League Club, New York, NY
1910: Exhibition of Independent Artists, New York, NY
1908: Old Harmonie Club, New York, NY
Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Carnegie, Pittsburgh, PA (Kent exhibited at most of the Carnegie annual exhibitions––and other major, national annuals––throughout his life.)
1907: Wm. Clausen Galleries, New York, NY
New York School of Art. New York, NY
Society of American Artists, New York, NY
: Selected Public Collections:
: Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, Plattsburgh, NY
Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, AK
Alaska State Museum, Juneau, AlK
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
The University of Arizona Art Museum, Tucson, AZ
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Adirondack Museum, Blue Mountain Lake, NY
The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russia
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia

Literature

2012: Franklin, Jamie and Jake Milgram Wien, Rockwell Kent's 'Egypt': Shadow and Light in Vermont. Bennington, Vermont: Bennington Museum, 2012
Komanecky, Michael. Jamie Wyeth, Rockwell Kent and Monhegan. Farnsworth Art Museum: Rockland, ME, 2012
2005: Wien, Jake Milgram. Rockwell Kent: The Mythic and the Modern. Manchester: Hudson Hills Press, 2005
2003: , Don. Rockwell Kent: The Art of the Bookplate. San Francisco, Fair Oaks Press, 2003
1999: Ferris, Scott R. and Caroline Welsh. The View from Asgaard: Rockwell Kent's Adirondack Legacy. Blue Mountain Lake, NY: Adirondack Museum, 1999
1998: Ferris, Scott R. and Ellen Pearce. Rockwell Kent's Forgotten Landscapes. Down East Books, Camden, ME, 1998
1985: West, Richard V. "An Enkindled Eye": The Paintings of Rockwell Kent, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, 1985
1982: Johnson, Fridolf. Rockwell Kent: An Anthology of His Works. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982
1980: Traxel, David. An American Saga: The Life and Times of Rockwell Kent. New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1980
1975: Jones, Dan Burne. The Prints of Rockwell Kent: A Catalogue Raisonne. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1975
1974: The Kent Collector (now, The Kent Review). Plattsburgh, NY: SUNY-Plattsburgh, 1974-current
1968: Kent, Rockwell. After Long Years. Au Sable Forks, NY: Asgaard Press, 1968
1940: Kent, Rockwell. This is My Own. New York: Duell, Sloan, and Pearce, 1940
1933: Kent, Rockwell and Carl Zigrosser. Rockwellkentiana. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1933

Rockwell Kent

(American, 1882–1971)

Rockwell Kent

Rockwell Kent

Rockwell Kent

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Literature

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