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Rockwell Kent

Rockwell Kent

Artist

WA-00027869

Painting

Representation

None documented

8

Institutional Exhibitions

34

Works in Collection

45

Assets Indexed

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Publications Referenced

80%

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Authority Records (3)

WikidataQ114405 ULAN500006820

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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American Prints: 1900�1960; Recent Acquisitions: Illustrated Books

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1985–1986

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Prints from Blocks: Gauguin to Now

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1983

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American Prints: 1913�1963

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1974–1975

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Romantic Painting in America

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1943–1944

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Three Centuries of American Art

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1938

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Modern Painters and Sculptors as Illustrators

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1936

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American Painting and Sculpture, 1862�1932

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1932–1933

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Paintings by 19 Living Americans

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1929–1930

Source Registry (1)

MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/3065
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

About

Why this artist matters now

Rockwell Kent was an American painter, printmaker, and illustrator whose dramatic landscapes and wood engravings captured remote environments across Greenland, Alaska, and Newfoundland. Working primarily in oil, lithography, and wood engraving throughout the twentieth century, Kent developed a distinctive visual language of simplified forms and bold contrasts that conveyed both the sublime and the austere. His illustrated editions of classical texts and his graphic works on paper established him as a major figure in American printmaking and social-minded illustration.

Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 29d ago

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Institutional

Museum Collections

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Cleveland Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago Museum of Modern ArtNew York

Canonical record

Artworks (34)

Harvest Time (Fragment)

Harvest Time (Fragment)

1950 · Cotton and rayon, float weave; photomechanically-etched roller printed

53.2 × 54.2 cm (21 × 21 3/8 in.); Repeat: 5.9 × 4.1 cm (2 5/16 × 1 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Deer Season (Fragment)

Deer Season (Fragment)

1950 · Cotton and rayon, float weave; photomechanically-etched roller printed

54 × 56.5 cm (21 1/4 × 22 1/4 in.); Repeat: 5.8 × 4.1 cm (2 1/4 × 1 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Deer Season (Furnishing Fabric)

Deer Season (Furnishing Fabric)

1950 · Cotton and rayon, plain weave self patterned by main warps and ground weft floats; roller printed

180.9 × 112.3 cm (71 1/4 × 44 1/4 in.); Repeat: 54.5 × 54.4 cm (21 1/2 × 21 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Pine Boughs and Bees

1945 · Gouache

image: 5 1/2 x 6 1/16 in. (14 x 15.4 cm) sheet: 7 1/8 x 6 15/16 in. (18.1 x 17.7 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Night Flight

1941 · Chiaroscuro wood engraving in black and bluish gray on white wove paper

Image: 21.5 × 16.2 cm (8 1/2 × 6 7/16 in.); Sheet: 31.4 × 24.1 cm (12 3/8 × 9 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Self-Portrait

1934 · Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 34 × 24.7 cm (13 7/16 × 9 3/4 in.); Sheet: 41.3 × 30.5 cm (16 5/16 × 12 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Greenland Courtship

Greenland Courtship

1934 · Lithograph on white wove paper

Image: 35.2 × 25.3 cm (13 7/8 × 10 in.); Sheet: 48.5 × 39 cm (19 1/8 × 15 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Sledging (Greenland Travelers)

1933 · wood engraving

Sheet: 31.1 x 23.5 cm (12 1/4 x 9 1/4 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Mountain Climber

1932 · graphite

Sheet: 21 x 15.8 cm (8 1/4 x 6 1/4 in.); Image: 20.3 x 15.2 cm (8 x 6 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Sea and Sky

1931 · Wood engraving

composition: 9 15/16 × 6 7/16" (25.3 × 16.4 cm); sheet: 14 7/16 × 11 1/8" (36.6 × 28.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Susanna

1929 · Lithograph transfer on zinc on ivory wove paper

Image: 19.3 × 14 cm (7 5/8 × 5 9/16 in.); Sheet: 40.5 × 29 cm (16 × 11 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Unpublished Illustration for "Candide"

1928 · Lithograph

image: 2 1/8 x 4 15/16 in. (5.4 x 12.6 cm) sheet: 4 3/4 x 7 1/4 in. (12.1 x 18.4 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1928 · Lithograph on stone

sheet 15 7/8 x 11 5/16" (40 x 28.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

1928 · Lithograph on stone

Comp. 7 7/8 x 11 3/4" (20.0 x 29.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Climbing the Bars

1928 · Lithograph

Comp. 11 1/16 x 8" (28.2 x 20.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

1928 · Lithograph on stone

Comp. 11 x 14 13/16" (27.8 x 37.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Forest Pool

1927 · Wood engraving on cream wove paper

Plate: 14 × 20.4 cm (5 9/16 × 8 1/16 in.); Sheet: 22.4 × 28.3 cm (8 7/8 × 11 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Angel - Greetings from the House of Weyhe MCMXXVI

Angel - Greetings from the House of Weyhe MCMXXVI

1926 · Wood engraving on cream wove paper

Image/block: 12.2 × 16.1 cm (4 13/16 × 6 3/8 in.); Sheet: 14.8 × 17.4 cm (5 7/8 × 6 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

1925 · lithograph

Cleveland Museum of Art

1925 · watercolor

Sheet: 26 x 35.9 cm (10 1/4 x 14 1/8 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Still the Breath Divine does Move/ And the Breath Divine is Love

Still the Breath Divine does Move/ And the Breath Divine is Love

1925 · Wood engraving on cream wove paper

Block/image: 19.2 × 13.7 cm (7 9/16 × 5 7/16 in.); Sheet: 32.3 × 25.1 cm (12 3/4 × 9 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Portrait of Me (Improved)

Portrait of Me (Improved)

1923 · Pen and brush and black ink on ivory wove paper, laid down on ivory wood pulp laminate board

23.8 × 15.9 cm (9 3/8 × 6 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Garden at Harberton (Tierra del Fuego)

1922 · pen and ink on paper

Sheet: 17.1 x 19.1 cm (6 3/4 x 7 1/2 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Mount Equinox, Winter

Mount Equinox, Winter

1921 · Oil on canvas

86.6 × 111.9 cm (34 1/8 × 44 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Artwork sources (4)

34 published of 40 catalogued · 20 with image

Art Institute Chicago
17 published17 img
MoMA
6 publishedof 12 catalogued2 img
Cleveland Museum of Art
6 published1 img
The Met
5 published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 6)

6 entries · 1 sources

The Garden at Harberton (Tierra del Fuego)
1922 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Mountain Climber
1932 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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French Alps
1925 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Maine Coast
1907 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Hero
1925 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Sledging (Greenland Travelers)
1933 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Record

Images

Maine Coast (1907)

Cleveland Museum of Art

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Mount Equinox, Winter (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

Mount Equinox, Winter (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

Relationships

5

Collections5

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Cleveland Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago Museum of Modern Art Freeman's|Hindman

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

In collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

Market

Auction sale history

Houses that have sold works by this artist at auction

Freeman's|Hindman