Rockwell Kent
Artist in Greenland
1934
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Rockwell Kent
Artist in Greenland
1934
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, Framed: 38 7/8 × 48 3/4 × 2 1/2 in. (98.7 × 123.8 × 6.4 cm.)
Sight: 33 1/2 × 43 3/4 in. (85.1 × 111.1 cm.)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from the Edward Joseph Gallagher III Memorial Collection
Object Number
1991.10
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1991: Jodan-Volpe Gallery, New York City; Private Collector; Los Angeles dealer; Arizona Dealer, 1989; Mr. and Mrs. Dan Burne Jones, 1960; Rockwell Kent
"Rockwell Kent: The Early Years," Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, 1969
"An Enkindled Eye: The Paintings of Rockwell Kent," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, June 29 - September 1, 1985; Columbus (Ohio) Museum of Art, October 12 - November 14, 1985; Portland (Maine) Museum of Art, January 21 - March 2, 1986; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, April 11 - May 18, 1986
"Distant Shores: The Odyssey of Rockwell Kent," The Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA, June 24, 2000 - October 22, 2000; Appleton Museum of Art, Oscala, FL, November 18, 2000 - January 28, 2001; Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, IL, February 24 - May 20, 2001; Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, AK, June 17 - September 23, 2001
BMA, "American Modernism from the Collection," June 25, 2003-
Portland Museum of Art, Maine, "Rockwell Kent: The Mythic and The Modern," June 23, 2005 - October 16, 2005.
"An Enkindled Eye: The Paintings of Rockwell Kent," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, June 29 - September 1, 1985; Columbus (Ohio) Museum of Art, October 12 - November 14, 1985; Portland (Maine) Museum of Art, January 21 - March 2, 1986; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, April 11 - May 18, 1986
"Distant Shores: The Odyssey of Rockwell Kent," The Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA, June 24, 2000 - October 22, 2000; Appleton Museum of Art, Oscala, FL, November 18, 2000 - January 28, 2001; Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, IL, February 24 - May 20, 2001; Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, AK, June 17 - September 23, 2001
BMA, "American Modernism from the Collection," June 25, 2003-
Portland Museum of Art, Maine, "Rockwell Kent: The Mythic and The Modern," June 23, 2005 - October 16, 2005.
"Rockwell Kent: The Early Years," Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, 1969. Exhibition catalogue, with brief essays by Carl Zigrosser, Rockwell Kent, and richard V. West. "Artist in Greenland" cat. no. 60, ill. b/w and in cover detail.
Richard V. West, with contributions by Fridolf Johnson and Dan Burne Jones, "An Enkindled Eye: The Paintings of Rockwell Kent," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1985. Exhibition catalogue. "Artist in Greenland" cat. no. 84, ill. b/w p. 111.
"A Self Portrait," Gedel and Company, Inc., New York City, 1988, pp. 46-47, cover illustration, illus. p. 47
"An American Saga: The Life and Times of Rockwell Kent," Traxel/Harper and Row, 1980, detail on dust jacket
"Rockwell Kent: an Anthology of His Work," Johnson/Knopf, 1982, p. 294 color
Jake Milgram Wien, 'Rockwell Kent: The Mythic and the Modern,' New York: Hudsin Hills Press, 2005, p.16, ill.
Lewis, Frederick. "The Stormy Petrel of American Art." Scandinavian Review. 99. no. 2 (2012): 6-21. illus. front cover, p. 20-21.
Peter John Brownlee and Valeria Piccoli, "Picturing the Americas Landscape Painting from Tierre del Fuego to the Arctic." Yale University Press: New Haven, MA, 2015, fig. 6, ill.
"Rockwell Kent in Greenland," Redtree Times Blog written by artist C.G. Myers, March 15, 2012
Inscribed: Face: signed, BR (blue paint): "Rockwell Kent" Frame, sideways (pen/pencil), UR "1034/B/ucos 1/11 with 1/8 step"; CR "RED/WHITING RAW"; BR "115424 ASAP/...(obscured)"; UR and BL (stamped) "HUSAR/CHICAGO" Labels: 3 Jordan Volpe Gallery labels - 1 blank, 2 with painting info.
On View: Cone Wing, Northwest 2
