April 12, 2024
Rockwell Kent Wilderness 1937 ed A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska
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Rockwell Kent Wilderness 1937 ed A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska xvii, 217pp., [1]. Illustrated. Blue cloth hardcover with gilt...cover has edge damage...contents are very good....great prints... one of four Rockwell Kent items being offered by seller this week ...see my other auctions "In the late summer of 1918, Kent and his nine-year-old son ventured to the American frontier of Alaska. Wilderness (1920), the first of Kent's several adventure memoirs, is an edited and illustrated compilation of his letters home. The New Statesman (London) described Wilderness as "easily the most remarkable book to come out of America since Leaves of Grass was published." Upon the artist's return to New York in March 1919, publishing scion George Palmer Putnam and others, including Juliana Force--assistant to Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney--implemented their avant-garde notion of incorporating the artist as "Rockwell Kent, Inc." to support him in his new Vermont homestead while he completed his paintings from Alaska for exhibition in 1920 at Knoedler Galleries in New York. Kent's small oil-on-wood-panel sketches from Alaska--uniformly horizontal studies of light and color--were exhibited at Knoedler's as "Impressions." Their artistic lineage to the small and spare oil sketches of James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), which are often entitled
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