Greenland Book

Greenland Book

Author: Rockwell Kent

Publisher:

Published: 1935

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13:

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A record of the author's Greenland life.


Distant Shores

Distant Shores

Author: Constance Martin

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 0520227123

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his admiration for the heroic virtues of their inhabitants, and the mystical strain in his nature, his sense of wonder before the elemental and infinite. These early Monhegan paintings, with their uncompromising clarity, their concentration on the stark forms of the island, and their romantic delight in great expanses of sea, cold northern sky, and brilliant light, were among his most moving works."--Lloyd Goodrich "[We see] Kent's fascination with the wild and remote places of the earth, his admiration for the heroic virtues of their inhabitants, and the mystical strain in his nature, his sense of wonder before the elemental and infinite. These early Monhegan paintings, with their uncompromising clarity, their concentration on the stark forms of the island, and their romantic delight in great expanses of sea, cold northern sky, and brilliant light, were among his most moving works."--Lloyd Goodrich


Voyaging Southward from the Strait of Magellan

Voyaging Southward from the Strait of Magellan

Author: Rockwell Kent

Publisher:

Published: 1924

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13:

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This work by Kent is an absorbing account of a trip that he made in a small sail boat along the bleak coasts of Tierra del Fuego to Cape Horn in the 1920s. Kent called Tierra del Fuego "the worst frontier in the world" and the characters that inhabited this land "the very dregs of humankind".


The Illustrations of Rockwell Kent

The Illustrations of Rockwell Kent

Author: Rockwell Kent

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2013-04-09

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 0486283631

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This retrospective brings together the finest work of the most important American book illustrator of the 1920s and 30s, gathering black-and-white pieces from not only important novels, but magazines and advertisements.


A Northern Christmas

A Northern Christmas

Author: Rockwell Kent

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 1998-11-20

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 9780819563620

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How a father and son find the spirit of Christmas in the Alaskan wilderness.


Rockwell Kent's Forgotten Landscapes

Rockwell Kent's Forgotten Landscapes

Author: Scott R. Ferris

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13:

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In 1960, feeling that his work was unappreciated in America, Rockwell Kent gave the collection of his life's work to the people of the Soviet Union. For nearly forty years, the more than 700 paintings, drawings, prints, and manuscripts have been virtually unseen by western eyes, until now.