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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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 compani... Read full biography
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About Rockwell Kent: Books
Books & Publications (204)
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Wildlife in American Art: Masterworks from the National Museum of Wildlife Art
2009
Harris, Adam Duncan
262 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
The Imprint of Place: Maine Printmaking 1800-2005 (Exhibition catalog)
2005
Becker, David P.
0 pages (color)
Celebrating 25 Years Hollis Taggart Galleries (Exhibition catalog)
2005
Bullaudy, Vivian (Essay)
0 pages (color)
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Rockwell Kent The Mythic and the Modern
2005
Wien, Jake Milgram
200 pages (color)
Side by Side on Monhegan: The Henri Circle and The American Impressionists (Exhibition catalog)
2004
60 pages (color)
Selections III Brock & Co.
2004
Hankin, Lisa Bush
47 pages (color)
Dreams and Dramas: Moonlight and Twilight in American Art (Hollis Taggart Galleries) (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Leeds, Valerie (Essay)
88 pages (color)
Rockwell Kent: The Art of the Bookplate
2003
Roberts, Don and Ross, Will
0 pages (color)
The Prints of Rockwell Kent Revised by Robert Rightmire
2002
Jones, Dan Burne
448 pages
An American Point of View The Daniel J. Terra Collection (Exhibition catalog)
2002
Kennedy and Bourguignon(essays
194 pages (color)
The Spirit of America: American Art from 1829 to 1970 (Exhibition catalog)
2002
Spanierman Gallery (Editor)
120 pages (color)
The Illustrator in America, 1860-2000 The Society of Illustrators
2001
Reed, Walt
452 pages (color)
The View from Asgaard: Rockwell Kent's Adirondack Legacy
2000
Ferris, Scott R;Caroline Welsh
80 pages (color)
An American Palette: Works from Collection of John/Dolores Beck
2000
Florida Museum of Fine Arts
0 pages
Distant Shores: The Odyssey of Rockwell Kent
2000
Martin, Constance
0 pages (color)
Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum
1999
Editor, Smith College Museum
307 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Eye of Duncan Phillips A Collection in the Making
1999
Passantino, Erika D (editor)
819 pages (color)
The Art Students League of New York A History (Teachers)
1999
Steiner, Raymond J
0 pages
Rockwell Kent's Forgotten Landscape
1998
Ferris, Scott R, E Pearce
96 pages (color)
Rockwell Kent's Forgotten Landscapes
1998
Ferris, Scott; Ellen Pearce
0 pages (color)
Posters American Style
1998
Heyman, Therese Thau
192 pages (color)
Eyes of the Nation A Visual History of the United States
1997
Virga, Vincent/Alan Brinkley
400 pages (color)
American Images/The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art
1996
Hopps, Walter (others)
320 pages (color)
American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols)
1996
Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin
877 pages (color)
Selections From the Permanent Collection: Southern Alleghenies
1996
Strueber, Michael (Director)
118 pages (color)
Wild Impressions The Adirondacks on Paper
1995
Barnhill, Georgia B
99 pages (color)
Advertising, Artists & the Borders of Art
1995
Bogart, Michelle H
427 pages
Monhegan: The Artists' Island
1995
Curtis, Jane and Will, Frank Lieberman, Carl Little (Foreward)
192 pages (color)
Views from Abroad European Perspectives on American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1995
Fuchs, Rudi/Adam D Weinberg
127 pages (color)
Jackets Required An Illustrated History of Book Jacket Design 1920-1950
1995
Heller, Steven/Seymour Chwast
144 pages (color)
It's Me O Lord
1995
Kent, Rockwell
0 pages
American Impressionism and Realis The Painting of Modern Life 1885-1915 (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Weinberg, H Barbara (others)
400 pages (color)
The Drawing Collection Stanford University Museum of Art
1993
Eitner, Lorenz (others)
418 pages (color)
Master Index 1971-1993 Artists in Southwest Art
1993
Southwest Art
64 pages
Painting in the North Alaskan Art in the Anchorage Museum
1993
Woodward, Kesler E
160 pages (color)
American Drawings and Watercolors from the Kansas City Region (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Adams, Henry (others)
495 pages (color)
A Nation's Legacy 150 Years of American Art from Ohio Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Columbus Museum of Art
198 pages (color)
Hidden Treasures American Paintings from Florida Colllections (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Leeds, Valerie Ann
72 pages (color)
Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook (of the Collection)
1991
Cleveland Museum of Art
161 pages
American Illustrator Art Official Price Guide
1991
Gilbert Anne
1,991 pages (color)
The Landscape in Twentieth Century American Art
1991
Rosenblum, Robert (intro)
174 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
622 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
American Painting
1990
Goddard, Donald; Robert Rosenblum (Intro)
319 pages (color)
Reckoning with Winslow Homer His Late Paintings and Their Influence (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Robertson, Bruce
196 pages (color)
Permeable Border: Art of Canada and the United States 1920-1940 (Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto)
1989
Boyanoskji, Christine
70 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings
612 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989
Fresella-Lee, Nancy
222 pages (color)
At the Water's Edge: 19th and 20th Century American Beach Scenes Tampa Museum of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Maass, R. Andrew (Foreward); Valerie Ann Leeds (Intro)
140 pages (color)
Sounding the Depths 150 Years of American Seascape
1989
Nelson, Harold B
111 pages (color)
Drawn from Tradition: American Drawings and Watercolors: From the Collection of Susan and Herbert Adler, Neuberger Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Weber, Bruce
185 pages (color)
The American Collections Columbus Museum of Art
1988
Columbus Museum of Art
271 pages (color)
The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
1988
Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy
376 pages (color)
American Drawings and Watercolors from the Wadsworth Atheneum
1987
Barter, Judith A; Eugene R. Gaddis (Intro)
94 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Twentieth Century American Painting Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection
1987
Levin, Gail
407 pages (color)
American Printmakers: 1860-1950
1987
R.S. Johnson Fine Art
119 pages
American Traditions in Watercolor Worcester Art Museum Collection
1987
Strickler, Susan (editor)
232 pages (color)
Artists Against War and Fascism Papers/First American Artists' Congress
1986
Baigell, Mathew/Julia Williams
310 pages
A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art
1986
Chetham, Charles; David Grose
312 pages (color)
Insights & Outlooks American 20th Century Watercolors & Drawings (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Fleischman, Martha (Intro)
36 pages
Winter (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Hall, Donald/Clifton C Olds
138 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Americans in the Arts 1890-1920
1985
Huneker, James G/Arnold Schwab
672 pages
Treasures from the National Museu of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Kloss, William/C C Eldredge
254 pages (color)
A Circle of Friends Art Colonies of Cornish and Dublin (Exhibition catalog)
1985
New Hampshire, U of
138 pages (color)
National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist
1985
Smithsonian Institution
461 pages
An Enkindled Eye The Paintings of Rockwell Kent (Exhibition catalog)
1985
West, Richard V
120 pages (color)
American Watercolors, Pastels, Collages The Brooklyn Museum
1984
Faunce, Sarah; Linda S. Ferber (Curators)
88 pages (color)
American Reflections: Paintings 1830-1940 Pomona and Scripps Colleges, Claremont, California (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Kopitske, Christine (Editor)
144 pages (color)
The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944 (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Marlor, Clark S
600 pages
American Portrait Prints Tenth Annual American Print Conference
1984
Reaves, Wendy Wick
285 pages
The Illustrator in America, 1880-1980: A Century of Illustration
1984
Reed, Walt and Roger
355 pages (color)
American Printmaking A Century of American Printmaking 1880-1980
1984
Watrous, James
334 pages (color)
American Lithographers 1900-1960: The Artists and Their Printers
1983
Adams, Clinton
228 pages (color)
Tradition and Innovation in New Deal Art
1983
Contreras, Belasario R
253 pages
Prints A Collector's Guide
1983
Kaplan, Ellen
253 pages
The Book of Nature: American Painters & the Natural Sublime Hudson River Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Murphy, Frank (Essay)
112 pages (color)
A Distant Harmony: Comparisons in the painting of Canada and the United States of America Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba
1982
Davis, Ann
190 pages (color)
Treasury of American Pen-and-Ink Illustration 1881 to 1938
1982
Johnson, Fridolf
149 pages
Wall-to-Wall America A Cultural History of Post Office Murals
1982
Marling, Karal Ann
348 pages
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
American Graphics 1860-1940
1982
Philadelphia Museum of Art
122 pages (color)
Solitude Inner Visions in American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Terra Museum of American Art
41 pages (color)
Critical Vision/A Historyof Social and Political Art in the U S
1982
Von Blum, Paul
165 pages
The History of the Illustrated Book The Western Tradition
1981
Harthan, John
288 pages (color)
Rockwell Kent An Anthonology of His Work
1981
Johnson, Fridolf
358 pages (color)
Of Time and Place American Figurative Art from the Corcoran Gallery (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Nygren, Edward/Julie R Myers
196 pages (color)
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art
1981
Osborne, Harold
656 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
Students of the Eight American Masters 1910-1960 (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Sordoni Art Gallery
30 pages
Twentieth Century Drawings Selections from the Whitney
1981
Whitney Museum
136 pages
American Prints and Printmakers A Chronicle of Over 400 Artists
1980
Johnson, Una E
266 pages (color)
Amerika Traum und Depression 1920-1940 (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Neuen Gesellschaft Bild. Kunst
544 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works
1979
Brooklyn Museum
133 pages (color)
American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts
1979
Brown, Milton W (others)
616 pages (color)
Artists in Their Own Words Interviews by Paul Cumminggs
1979
Cummings, Paul
242 pages
American Drawing A Guide to Information Sources
1979
Doumato, Lamia
246 pages
American Imagination and Symbolist Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Eldredge, Charles C
176 pages (color)
An American Bestiary
1979
Haverstock, Mary Sayre
248 pages (color)
Art Inc, American Paintings from Corporate Collections Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Kahan, Mitchell Douglas (Intro)
298 pages (color)
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
The Immortal Eight American Painting from Eakins to the Armory Show
1979
Perlman, Bennard B
224 pages (color)
The Phillips Collection In the Making 1920-1930
1979
Phillips, Laughlin and Duncan
96 pages (color)
Museum of Fine Arts The American and European Collections
1979
Springfield Library & Museum
216 pages (color)
Crocker Art Museum: Handbook of Paintings
1979
West, Richard (Essay); Alfred Neumeyer; Joseph A. Baird, Jr.
202 pages (color)
Art of the Twenties American Painting at the Crossroads (Exhibition catalog)
1978
Flint Institute of Arts
70 pages (color)
The Modern Spirit American Painting 1908-1935 (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Brown, Milton W
96 pages (color)
American Art at Amherst: A Summary Catalogue of the Collection At the Mead Art Gallery Amherst College (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Shepard, Lewis A; David Paley, Frank Trapp
252 pages (color)
American Realists Homer to Hopper
1977
Young, Mahonri Sharp
208 pages
Three Hundred Years of American Art In The Chrysler Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Anderson, Dennis R (Introductory Essay)
270 pages (color)
American Painting 1900 to 1932 From the Whitney Museum of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Ballinger, James K
48 pages
American Prints 1913-1963 (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Castelman, Riva
160 pages
Rockwell Kent
1976
Chegodaev, Andrei
44 pages (color)
American Drawings The 20th Century
1976
Cummings, Paul
207 pages
Artists and Models
1975
Archives of American Art
40 pages
Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection