1923 KENT DECO CARNIVAL MAY POLE CIRCUS SPRING DANCE FLAG VINTAGE ART COVER VQ26. AN ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATED COVER (COVER ONLY) FROM VINTAGE PERIODICAL… DATE OF ORIGINAL COVER. (June 21, 1882 – March 13, 1971) was an American painter. Illustrator, writer, sailor, adventurer and voyager. Rockwell Kent was born in. He lived much of his early life in and around New York City, where he attended the. In his mid-40s he moved to an. Farmstead that he called. Where he lived and painted until his death. Kent studied with several influential painters and theorists of his day. He studied composition and design with. At the Art Students League in the fall of 1900, and he studied painting with. Each of the three summers between 1900 and 1902 at the. Shinnecock Hills Summer School of Art. After which he entered in the fall of 1902. S class at the. New York School of Art. Which Chase had founded. During the summer of 1903 in. Kent was apprenticed to painter and naturalist. An undergraduate background in architecture at. Prepared Kent for occasional work in the 1900s and 1910s as an architectural renderer and carpenter. At the Art Students League he would meet and befriend the artists. Kent’s early paintings of. Were first shown at the. Society of American Artists. In New York in 1904, when. In 1905 Kent ventured to. Maine, and found its rugged and primordial beauty a source of inspiration for the next five years. His first series of paintings of Monhegan were shown to wide critical acclaim in 1907 at Clausen Galleries in New York. These works form the foundation of his lasting reputation as an early American. And can be seen in museums across the country, including the. Metropolitan Museum of Art. New Britain Museum of American Art. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Among those critics lauding Kent was James Huneker of the. Sun, who praised Kent’s athletic brushwork and daring color dissonances. It was Huneker who deemed the paintings of. In 1910, Kent helped organize the Exhibition of Independent Artists, and in 1911 together with Arthur B. Davies he organized An Independent Exhibition of the Paintings and Drawings of Twelve Men, referred to as “The Twelve” and “Kent’s Tent”. (but not John Sloan, Robert Henri, or George Bellows) participated in the 1911 exhibition. In the tradition of. Whose works he read, Kent found inspiration in the austerity and stark beauty of wilderness. After Monhegan, he lived for extended periods of time in. His series of land and seascapes from these often forbidding locales convey the Symbolist spirit evoking the mysteries and cosmic wonders of the natural world. “I don’t want petty self-expression”, Kent wrote, I want the elemental, infinite thing; I want to paint the rhythm of eternity. In the late summer of 1918, Kent and his nine-year-old son ventured to the American frontier of. (1920), the first of Kent’s several adventure memoirs, is an edited and illustrated compilation of his letters home. As easily the most remarkable book to come out of America since. Upon the artist’s return to New York in March 1919, publishing scion. And others, including Juliana Force-assistant to Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney-incorporated the artist as Rockwell Kent, Inc. Their artistic lineage to the small and spare oil sketches of. James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Approached in 1926 by publisher. To produce an illustrated edition of. Richard Henry Dana, Jr. Two Years Before the Mast. Published in 1930 by the Lakeside Press of. Less well known are Kent’s talents as a. As the pen-and-ink draftsman Hogarth, Jr. , Kent created dozens of whimsical and irreverent drawings published by. He brought his Hogarth, Jr. Style to a series of richly colored reverse paintings on glass that he completed in 1918 and exhibited at. Wanamaker’s Department Store. Two of these glass paintings are in the collection of the. Columbus Museum of Art. Part of the bequest of modernist collector. Further decorative work ensued intermittently: in 1939. Reproduced three series of designs drawn by Kent (Moby Dick, Salamina, Our America) on its sets of contemporary china dinnerware. His pen, brush, and ink drawings were reproduced on the covers of the. Magazine to say that if it were distinguished for nothing else. Would stand apart from rival’pulps’…. Because it was once entirely illustrated by Rockwell Kent…. Raymond Moore, founder and impresario of the Cape Playhouse and Cinema in. Contracted with Rockwell Kent for the design of murals for the cinema, but the work of transferring and painting the designs on the 6,400-square-foot 590 m. Ostensibly staying away from the state of Massachusetts to protest the. Executions of 1927, Kent did in fact venture to Dennis in June 1930 to spend three days on the scaffolding, making suggestions and corrections. The signatures of both Kent and Mielziner appear on opposite walls of the cinema. Kent traveled three times to Greenland. After meeting Danish Arctic explorers Peter Freuchen and Knud Rasmussen in 1929, Kent determined to return to Greenland to paint and write. He spent two years (1931-32 and 1934-35) above the Arctic Circle in a tiny fishing settlement called Igdlorssuit (or Illorsuit), where he conceived some of the largest and most celebrated paintings of his career. Among his many cross-cultural encounters in Greenland was with Leni Riefenstahl, the famed German actress who was briefly in Illorsuit with the film crew of. Kent’s own movie-making aspirations, including a quasi-documentary film featuring the Inuit, are documented in. Rockwell Kent and Hollywood. (Jake Milgram Wien, 2002), cited below. Many of Kent’s historic photographs and hand-tinted lantern slides are reproduced for the first time in. North by Nuuk: Greenland after Rockwell Kent. (Denis Defibaugh, 2019), also cited below. Approached, Kent shifted his priorities, becoming increasingly active in progressive politics. In 1937, the Section of Painting and Sculpture of the U. Treasury commissioned Kent, along with nine other artists, to paint two murals in the New Post Office building at the. Kent included in an. That alone can make us equal and free. The incident caused some consternation. Kent’s patriotism never waned in spite of his often critical views of American foreign policy. He remained America’s premier draftsman of the sea, and during World War II he produced a series of pen/brush and ink maritime drawings for. And began another series of pen/brush and ink drawings for Rahr Malting Company which he completed in 1946. The drawings were reproduced in. A book Kent also wrote and designed celebrating American freedom and democracy and the important role immigrants play in constructing American national identity. In 1948 Kent was elected to the. National Academy of Design. As an Associate member, and in 1966 he became a full Academician. However, the political changes of the Cold War and the rise of. Cast shadows over his art and representational painting in general. SEE PHOTO FOR DIMENSIONS (ALL DIMENSIONS IN INCHES). MANY OF THESE COVERS HAVE HEAVIER AGE WEAR FROM COLLECTOR USE (INCLUDING EDGE CUTS + REPAIRED TEARS) THE WEAR SHOULD BE EASY TO CLEAN OR REPAIR FOR FRAMING…. All original ads have some sign of age use.. These are period ads and we take quality photo’s to show any flaws. If you have questions about condition please ask… We do not reveal the periodical from which the ad is removed… For those folks who wish to copy and print our photo’s be aware they are photo copyrighted. And we will report misuse! We DO try and note and MAJOR flaws…. Otherwise please use the photo as part of the description.. Available with this method. 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