Rockwell Kent's Forgotten Landscapes

by Ferris, Scott R.; Pearce, Ellen; Kent, Rockwell

• ISBN13: 9780892724406
• ISBN10: 0892724404
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-08-01
• Publisher: Down East Books

Summary

Notable American artist Rockwell Kent virtually disappeared from museum and gallery circuits in the late 1940s because of his political views. But his popularity is now rebounding, and this study of Kent's missing "great collection" is a welcome addition to the literature about a great American artist. At the height of the Cold War, feeling that his work was not appreciated at home, Kent gave a remarkable gift of his work to the people of the Soviet Union as a gesture of friendship. Unfortunately, any friendship was a long time in coming, and the more that 700 paintings, drawings, prints, and manuscripts in his gift were, for practical purposes, lost to an American audience. Only those willing to travel to the Hermitage Museum, Kiev Museum, Gorki Museum, and collections in Ukraine and Armenia saw these works.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD	7	(1)
SHAHEN KHACHATURIAN
NATURAL GIFT: A CONTEXT	8	(9)
ELLEN PEARCE
THE PAINTINGS	17	(57)
THE BESTOWAL	74	(18)
SCOTT R. FERRIS
APPENDIX I. LIST OF VARIANT PAINTING TITLES	92	(1)
APPENDIX II LIST OF NON-PAINTINGS IN THE KENT COLLECTION DRAWINGS, PRINTS, BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND EPHEMERA	93	(1)
BIBLIOGRAPHY	94	(2)
INDEX	96