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	UPNE - Voyaging: Rockwell Kent
		Kent was especially fascinated by remote Arctic lands and often stayed for extended periods of time to paint, write, and become acquainted with the local inhabitants.
		Kent is a charming writer and keen observer of both the land and its people.
		Kent's attempt in a tiny sailboat to steer a course from the Strait of Magellan south and west through the mountainous-islanded channels of Tierra del Fuego around Cape Horn.
	www.upne.com /0-8195-6409-5.html (620 words)

	UPNE - N by E: Rockwell Kent
		Magnificently illustrated by Kent's wood-block prints and narrated in his poetic and highly entertaining style, this tale of the perils of killer nor'easters, treacherous icebergs, and impenetrable fog -- and the joys of sperm whales breaching or dawn unmasking a longed-for landfall -- is a rare treat for old salts and landlubbers alike.
		New collectors of Rockwell Kent's work, as well as those nostalgic for their lost or stolen copy of N by E, will be delighted with this representation of his art.
		Kent’s travel books, which include Wilderness, Voyaging, N by E, Salamina, and Greenland Journal, have all appeared in limited editions since his death-a tribute to their perennial appeal.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~upne/0-8195-5292-5.html (481 words)

	Rockwell Kent Exhibition
		Kent's warm acceptance and return to Newfoundland with his wife Sally is retold in his last authored book, "After Long Years." In April the Kents were in Moscow to receive the Lenin Peace Prize for the artist's outstanding efforts in the interest of peace and equality.
		Sally Kent Gorton and her new husband, John, formed The Rockwell Kent Legacies in 1973 to protect, promote, and disseminate the work of the late artist.
		The Rockwell Kent Gallery held a survey exhibition with a special concurrent show of drawings; accompanying this was a weekend of lectures and music.
	www.northeastjournal.com /PastStories/rockwellkent0699.htm (3000 words)

	Fine Art / Masters of Painting and Photographers
		Rockwell Kent was born in Tarrytown, New York, lived much of his early life in and around New York, and moved in his mid-40s to the Adirondacks where he lived the second half of his life.
		Kent's early paintings of Mount Monadnock and New Hampshire were first shown at the Society of American Artists in New York in 1904.
		In 1960 Kent donated several hundred paintings and drawings to the Soviet people, which responded by making him an honorary member of their academy of Fine Arts and awarding him the Lenin Peace Prize in 1967 (Kent donated the prize money to the people of North Vietnam).
	art-picture.stealthsettings.com /page/2 (1127 words)

	N by E - KENT, ROCKWELL
		This copy is signed again as a presentation copy from Rockwell Kent, affectionately inscribed: ÒTo my friend, pilot Fred Black from his apprentice, Rockwell Kent, 1930.Ó Evidence of a removed bookplate on the front pastedown.
		Laid in is a 8Ó x 7Ó fl & white photograph taken out of doors of Rockwell Kent, Fred Black, and another unidentified gentleman posed in front of a Stout Air Lines airplane, all of whom are wearing suits with Mr.
		Kent, alone, wearing a hat looking straight into the camera smiling, with his hands in his pockets.
	www.jamespepperbooks.com /si/10011E.html (150 words)

	University of Delaware: ROCKWELL KENT LETTERS TO DAVID WESLEY
		Rockwell Kent, born June 21, 1882, in Tarrytown, New York, is best remembered today for the large and varied body of artwork he left behind, including paintings, drawings, illustrations and woodcuts.
		Kent was encouraged in his artistic pursuits from a young age, championed by his mother's sister, "Aunt Jo", herself an amateur painter and ceramics decorator.
		Kent's artistic style, incorporating broadly massed forms and stark tonal contrast, was well-suited to portraying the open, often arctic landscapes he encountered during his extensive travels.
	www.lib.udel.edu /ud/spec/findaids/kentroc.htm (866 words)

	Rockwell Kent The Caldwell Gallery
		Rockwell Kent, born in 1882, studied at the School of Architecture at Columbia, with William Chase at his Shinnecock School from 1897-1900 and later the New York School of Art with Robert Henri from 1903-4.
		Kent remained politically active in the Socialist Party and was fllisted in the McCarthy era.
		Kent also published a journal he had written and illustrated on his trip to Alaska and an autobiography entitled “It’s me, Oh Lord” (1955), Kent was best described as a Realist painter and printmaker whose bold use of heavy fl masses and lines are remarkable.
	www.caldwellgallery.com /bios/kentbio.html (141 words)

	Rockwell Kent - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Kent, Rockwell (1882-1971), American painter, printmaker, and illustrator, born in Tarrytown, New York.
		Rockwell, Norman (1894-1978), American painter and illustrator, best known for his magazine covers and illustrations for such prominent American...
		Kent (Ohio), city, Portage County, northeastern Ohio, on the Cuyahoga River, near Akron; settled about 1805, incorporated 1920.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Rockwell_Kent.html (76 words)

	Rockwell Kent Summary
		The American painter and illustrator Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) fitted into the realist tradition that was a revolutionary force early in the 20th century and then gradually developed a stylized approach to subjects taken from the working class.
		Kent was a remarkable man. Perhaps because of his political beliefs, but probably out of some deeper feeling for reality, he worked at various times in his life as a lobsterman and carpenter along the coast of Maine and as a ship's carpenter.
		Rockwell Kent was born in Tarrytown, New York (but spent the majority of his life in Au Sable Forks), and was well educated in art.
	www.bookrags.com /Rockwell_Kent (926 words)

	Amazon.ca: Wilderness: Books: Rockwell Kent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Kent, who during the next three decades became America's premier graphic artist, printmaker, and illustrator, was seeking time, peace, and solitude to work on his art and strengthen ties with his son.
		Rockwell Kent tells of us of another type of adventure, the day to day living on remote Fox Island off Seward, in Alaska.
		Kent as a writer is equal to Kent as an artist, intellectual and candid in his telling a story and sharing impressions.
	www.amazon.ca /Wilderness-Rockwell-Kent/dp/0819552933 (1104 words)

	Amazon.ca: N by E: Books: Rockwell Kent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		When artist, illustrator, writer, and adventurer Rockwell Kent first published N by E in a limited edition in 1930, his account of a voyage on a 33-foot cutter from New York Harbor to the rugged shores of Greenland quickly became a collectors' item.
		Magnificently illustrated by Kent's wood-block prints and narrated in his poetic and highly entertaining style, this tale of the perils of killer nor'easters, treacherous icebergs, and impenetrable fog -- and the joys of sperm whales breaching or dawn unmasking a longed-for landfall -- is a rare treat for old salts and landlubbers alike.
		Kent illustrated the text with over 100 magnificent sketches and woodblock drawings that in themselves are worth the price.
	www.amazon.ca /N-E-Rockwell-Kent/dp/0819552925 (629 words)

	Rockwell Kent
		Kent's paintings, lithographs, and woodcuts often portrayed the bleak and rugged aspects of nature; a reflection of his life in harsh climates.
		Kent came out far ahead of all others as the most widely known and successful printmaker in the country.
		Few artists have experienced such fluctuations in the public esteem of their work as has Kent, from extravagant praise to fanatic denunciation, usually based on nonaesthetic considerations or on a misunderstanding of the real import of his prints and paintings.
	www.california-pawnshop.com /overture/kentrockwell.htm (433 words)

	Rockwell Kent Online
		Rockwell Kent at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 2 works by Rockwell Kent
		Rockwell Kent at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. Southern Alleghenies Museum, Pennsylvania
		All images and text on this Rockwell Kent page are copyright 2007 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
	www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/kent_rockwell.html (446 words)

	Rockwell Kent #2
		Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) was born in Tarrytown Heights, New York.
		Kent rejected forms of European modernism in favor of a highly condensed and simplified style.
		Kent had a Promethean concept of human aspiration and poetic creativity reminiscent of William Blake.
	www.annalies.com /Gallery/Rockwell_Kent__2/rockwell_kent__2.html (144 words)

	Rockwell Kent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Born in 1882, Rockwell Kent was raised in Tarrytown, New York.
		Through his aunt, Kent was exposed to a variety of European art and architecture when he accompanied her on a trip to Europe.
		Kent took a scholarship he had been awarded by Chase to the New York School of Art where he studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller.
	www.georgekrevskygallery.com /artists/kent/index.html (331 words)

	About Rockwell Kent
		Kent designed the bookplate shown above, taken from the Charlotte Whitney Allen Library's copy of Venus and Adonis, which was donated to the Library by the family of Leo Hart.
		As artist, illustrator, adventurer, and explorer, Rockwell Kent was a prolific, active, and often controversial individual.
		While commercial illustrations provided Kent with a steady income in the 1920s, by the 1930s, he had perfected his technique in book design and typography.
	mag.rochester.edu /exhibitions/Kent/kent.html (401 words)

	Rockwell Kent - Burial of Young Man
		In this burial scene, the figures form a shallow band resembling a frieze that stretches the length of the canvas.
		Duncan Phillips, who recognized this polarity in Kent's work, stated that Kent was "at heart a Greek but with many modern complications." Kent's early architectural training, which undoubtedly included the study of Greek and Roman monuments, may have inspired the composition of the frieze.
		When Kent first exhibited the painting, both critics and other artists noted that Kent’s painting shared the poetic universality and vaguely Greek aspect of compositions by the contemporaneous painter, Arthur B. Davies.
	www.phillipscollection.org /american_art/artwork/Kent-Burial_Young_Man.htm (277 words)

	The View from Asgaard: Rockwell Kent's Adirondack Legacy
		The focus of this exhibition will be Kent's lyrical depictions of the landscape in and around his Adirondack home and the breadth of artistic creations in which he employed Adirondack imagery.
		Rockwell Kent was forty-five years old when he settled in the Adirondacks with his second wife, Frances, on two hundred acres they purchased near AuSable Forks.
		Rockwell Kent's enormous energy, athletic prowess, and creative drive propelled him to levels of achievement and recognition rarely reached by his contemporaries.
	www.tfaoi.com /newsm1/n1m151.htm (994 words)

	Rockwell Kent Books (Used, New, Out-of-Print) - Alibris
		Rockwell Kent's first book, which is often considered an Alaskan version of "Walden".
		The downside is that they also see the Day of Judgment and all the demons of Hell, which leads them to believe that they are being attacked by the demons of Hell and then they commit suicide.
		This translation of the ninth-century epic poem, considered the first great work of English literature, was originally intended for nonnative speakers of English with the intention of reducing difficulties present in the Old English style.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Kent%2C%20Rockwell (485 words)

	Rockwell Kent
		Kent's first one man's show was at the Clausen Galleries in 1908.
		Kent was involved with the radical journal, The Masses, and in 1912 was responsible for recruiting Maurice Becker to the staff.
		Kent left in 1916 with John Sloan and Stuart Davis over a dispute concerning the role of illustrations in the journal.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /ARTkent.htm (218 words)

	Rockwell Kent
		Kent was born in the small town of Tarrytown Heights, New York.
		Kent was hired by Vernon Kilns of Vernon, California, in the late 1930’s.
		Kent was in search of peace and simple contentment away from a world that had become stale and senseless to him.
	www.accessoryhut.com /detail.asp?id=8227 (326 words)

	Parkwise Activity - Rockwell Kent's Legacy
		Rockwell Kent's preface to the third edition of Wilderness (1970) shows that he understood his journal was a legacy of the natural world he found in Alaska.
		Have students use descriptions and pictures from Kenai Fjords National Park to discuss whether or not Kent's fears were well-founded concerning the area around Seward and Fox Island.
		Challenge: Act as Rockwell Kent or his son to write an advertisement for their own Fox Island Tours.
	www.nps.gov /akso/ParkWise/Teachers/Culture/KEFJ_Living_In_KEFJ/activities/RockwellKent.htm (403 words)

	Rockwell Kent
		Rockwell Kent is oftentimes identified with the American Realist School, but his technique displays aspects of the English style of his artistic predecessors.
		Kent sought to capture reality while symbolizing the metaphysics of existence.
		Today, Rockwell Kent's work is considered a premiere example of 20th century symbolism and the creative process.
	www.annalies.com /New_Works/Rockwell_Kent/rockwell_kent.html (241 words)

	Loganberry Books: Rockwell Kent
		Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) is one of the most respected printmakers of American art.
		Kent's paintings, lithographs, and woodcuts often portray the wildness of nature, and have been reproduced in books, prints and other formats widely.
		Although Kent insisted that he never belonged to the Communist party, his consistent support of radical causes contributed to a decline in his artistic popularity during the 1940s and 1950s.
	www.loganberrybooks.com /arts-kent.html (589 words)

	Rockwell Kent
		Rockwell Kent [1882-1971] was one of those who truly lived more lives than one.
		In 1974, Sally Kent Gorton presented Plattsburgh State University with a representative collection of Rockwell Kent's works which became the foundation for the university's Rockwell Kent Collection.
		Kent manuscripts, imprints and other ephemera are housed in Special Collections located in Feinberg Library.
	research.plattsburgh.edu /SpecialCollections/RockwellKent.htm (259 words)

	Voyaging Southward From the Strait of Magellan. With Illustrations by the Author - KENT, ROCKWELL
		Signed presentation copy inscribed by the author, Rockwell Kent, thoughtfully inscribed: ÒTo Mr.
		Laid in is a 8Ó x 7Ó fl & white photograph taken out of doors of Rockwell Kent, Fred Black, and another unidentified gentleman standing in front of an airplane, all of whom are wearing suits with Mr.
		Kent, alone, wearing a hat looking straight into the camera with his hands in his pockets.
	www.jamespepperbooks.com /si/10009E.html (168 words)

	Rockwell Kent ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Rockwell Kent, The Canterbury Tales (New York: Covici-Friede, 1930), vol.
		One of the great painters of his day, Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) made innovations that reverberated through American culture in the first half of the 20th century.
		His engagement with landscape, from his native Suffolk to the hop gardens and orchards of his adoptive Kent, was inspired in part by Constable and Samuel Palmer...
	www.wwar.com /masters/k/kent-rockwell.html (1668 words)

	Rockwell Kent Gallery and Collection, Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York
		The Rockwell Kent Gallery and Collection of the Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, contains the most complete and balanced collection of Rockwell Kent's work in the United States.
		The gallery, located in the Feinberg Library, and the Feinberg Library Special Collections provide an excellent overview of the art, literary merit and political beliefs of Kent, and affords an unusual resource to scholars and students of twentieth century American art and of Rockwell Kent's growth as an artist and advocate for social justice.
		The Rockwell Kent Gallery hosts a permanent exhibition of Kent's paintings, prints, drawings, dinnerware, books, design art, photographs, bookplates, archives and personal items from his travels and life at Asgaard Farm near Ausable Forks, NY.
	clubs.plattsburgh.edu /museum/rkent1.htm (354 words)

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