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Rockwell Kent (American, 1882-1971)
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Rockwell Kent
Flame 1928
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Biography |
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1882 |
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Born: in Tarrytown, New York |
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1900 |
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Graduated from the Horace Mann School, New York, NY
Attended William Merritt Chase Summer School of Art, Shinnecock, Long Island, NY
Enrolled in Columbia University and studied architecture, New York, NY |
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1901 |
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Attended William Merritt Chase Summer School of Art, Shinnecock, Long Island, NY |
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1902 |
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Attended William Merritt Chase Summer School of Art, Shinnecock, Long Island, NY |
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1903 |
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Left Columbia and attended New York School of Art full-time, New York, NY |
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1905 |
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Moved to Monhegan Island, ME, which remains his permanent address until 1910 |
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1910 |
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Taught at Monhegan Summer School of Art, Monhegan Island, ME; Travels to Newfoundland, Canada |
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1911 |
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Moved to New York with his family and resumed work as an architectural draftsman |
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1911 |
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Moved to Greenwich Village, New York, NY |
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1916 |
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Began submitting drawings to Harper’s Weekly and Vanity Fair under the pseudonym “Hogarth, Jr.” |
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1918 |
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Gained early membership in the Whitney Studio Club, New York, NY; Travelled to Alaska |
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1919 |
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Returned to New York, NY. Established Rockwell Kent, Inc. (dissolved in 1922) |
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1927 |
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Worked as editor for Creative Arts magazine |
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1966 |
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Named to the Academy of the Arts of the U.S.S.R. |
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1967 |
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Received the Lenin Peace Prize, Russia |
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1971 |
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Died: in Plattsburgh, New York |
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Exhibitions |
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2008 - 2009 |
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"Rockwell Kent: This is My Own", The New York State Museum, New York, NY (solo)
"From Impressionism to Modernism - American Paintings from the Farnsworth Art Museum, 1885-1935", Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
"Intrepid and Inventive: Illustrations by Rockwell Kent", Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, PA (solo) |
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2007 - 2008 |
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"Political Art of Rockwell Kent", Rockwell Kent Gallery, Plattsburgh, NY (solo) |
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2005 - 2007 |
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"75th Anniversary of Publication of Moby Dick, Illustrations by Rockwell Kent", Rockwell Kent Gallery, Plattsburgh, NY (solo) |
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2006 |
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"100 Drawings by Rockwell Kent", Burke Gallery, Plattsburgh State University of New York, NY (solo) |
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2004 - 2005 |
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"Rockwell Kent: The Mythic and the Modern", Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
"Rockwell Kent: Still Photos of an Active Man", Rockwell Kent Gallery, Plattsburgh, NY (solo) |
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2004 |
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"Seeing Red: Rockwell Kent and the Farnsworth Art Museum", Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME |
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2003 |
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"Rockwell Kent, The Art of the Bookplate", Rockwell Kent Gallery, Plattsburgh, NY (solo) |
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2002 |
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"Generations Artistic Influence of an American Master, Rockwell Kent", Burke Gallery, Plattsburgh State University of New York, NY |
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2001 |
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"Distant Shores: The Odyssey of Rockwell Kent", The Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, AK (solo) |
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1999 - 2001 |
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"Commercialism and Idealism Rockwell Kent, Bringing Art to Advertising", Rockwell Kent Gallery, Plattsburgh, NY (solo) |
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1969 |
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"Retrospective", Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME (solo) |
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1966 |
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Harbor Gallery, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, NY
Larcada Gallery,New York, NY |
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1960 |
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Academy of Art, Moscow, Russia (solo) |
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1958 |
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Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Moscow (solo) |
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1957 |
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Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia (solo) |
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1956 |
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Gropper Art Galleries, Cambridge, MA |
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1955 |
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Art of Today Gallery, New York, NY |
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1942 |
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Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, NY
A.B. Clossom, Jr., Company, Cincinnati, OH
Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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1941 |
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Society of Independent Artists, New York, NY
Harlow, Keppel, and Company, New York, NY |
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1939 |
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Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA |
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1937 |
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Pynson Printers, New York, NY
Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, New York, NY
Rochester Public Library, New York, NY
Gallery of Modern Masters, Washington, DC |
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1936 |
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Society of Independent Artists, New York, NY |
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1934 |
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Milwaukee Art Institute, Milwaukee, MN
The Print Rooms, Los Angeles, CA
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Macbeth Gallery, New York, NY |
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1933 |
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Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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1932 |
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Pynson Printers, New York, NY
Kennedy and Company, New York, NY |
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1931 |
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Kennedy and Company, New York, NY |
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1930 |
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Weyhe Gallery, New York, NY
R.R. Donnelley and Company, Lakeside Press, Chicago, IL
Kennedy and Company, New York, NY |
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1929 |
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Pynson Printers, New York, NY |
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1928 |
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Pynson Printers, New York, NY
East West Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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1927 |
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Weyhe Gallery, New York, NY
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, NY |
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1926 |
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Weyhe Gallery, New York, NY |
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1925 |
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Wildenstein Galleries, New York, NY
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia , PA |
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1924 |
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Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
Arts Club, Art Institute of Chicago, IL
"Retrospective", Wildenstein Galleries, New York, NY (solo)
Weyhe Gallery, New York, NY |
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1921 |
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Retrospective Exhibition of American Art, New York, NY |
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1920 |
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M. Knoedler and Company, New York, NY |
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1919 |
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M. Knoedler and Company, New York, NY |
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1918 |
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John Wanamaker department store, New York, NY |
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1917 |
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Daniel Gallery, New York, NY
Society of Independent Artists, New York, NY |
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1915 |
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Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, CA |
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1914 |
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National Arts Club, New York, NY |
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1913 |
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Public Library, Winona, MN |
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1913 |
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International Exhibition of Modern (Armory Show), New York, NY |
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1911 |
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Gallery of the Society of Beaux-Architects, New York, NY |
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1910 |
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Exhibition of Independent Artists, New York, NY |
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1908 |
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Old Harmonie Club, New York, NY
Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC |
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1907 |
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Clausen Galleries, New York, NY |
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Selected Public Collections: |
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Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, Plattsburgh, NY
Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, AK
Alaska State Museum, Juneau, AlK
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
The University of Arizona Art Museum, Tucson, AZ
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Adirondack Museum, New York, NY
The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Russia
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia |
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Literature |
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2005 |
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Wien, Jake Milgram. Rockwell Kent: The Mythic and the Modern. Manchester: Hudson Hills Press, 2005 |
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1980 |
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Traxel, David. An American Saga: The Life and Times of Rockwell Kent. New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1980 |
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1940 |
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Kent, Rockwell. This is My Own. New York: Duell, Sloan, and Pearce, 1940 |
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1933 |
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Kent, Rockwell and Carl Zigrosser. Rockwellkentiana. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1933 |
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