Rockwell kent illustrations
Rockwell Kent
Artist
born Tarrytown Heights, NY 1882-died Plattsburgh, NY 1971
- Born
- Tarrytown Heights, New York, United States
- Died
- Plattsburgh, New York, United States
- Active in
- Au Sable Forks, New York, United States
- Brigus, Newfoundland, Canada
- Greenland
- Biography
Painter, graphic artist, and writer. He developed a signature style of sculptural characterizations and traveled widely, illustrating his accounts of trips to Greenland, Alaska, and the Strait of Magellan. Politically active throughout his life, he received the Lenin Peace Prize—the Soviet-bloc counterpart to the Nobel Prize for Peace—in 1967.
Joan Stahl American Artists in Photographic Portraits from the Peter A. Juley & Son Collection (Washington, D.C. and Mineola, New York: National Museum of American Art and Dover Publications, Inc., 1995)
Artist Biography
Born in Tarrytown, New York, Rockwell Kent attended the Columbia University School of Architecture.