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Rockwell Kent
Born: June 21, 1882 at Tarry Town Heights, New York.
Died: March 13, 1971 at Plattsburgh, New York.
R. Kent spent his childhood spent in New York. Kent attended Horace Mann School and Columbia University School of Architecture as an architectural draftsman. He is best known for his illustrations of adventure stories, such as Melville's "Moby Dick," and his landscapes of remote places, such as Alaska, Tierra del Fuego, and Greenland. Rockwell Kentfavored a precise rendering of forms, with strong contrasts of light and dark.
In 1947 Rockwell Kent wrote that during his school years he studied art and that he is still studying art;
"In the course of many years I worked at practically everything that came along to earn a living for myself and growing family. I have been a lobsterman, a laborer, a carpenter, and a draftsman. I have painted pictures, made wood engravings, lithographs and drawings. I have worked very hard. And feeling entitled, through hard work done, to term myself a working man, I have identified myself with what is called the working class. I have become active in the labor movement, holding it to be the most potent force for good in our Democracy. I am at present a dairy farmer, and I live at Au Sable Forks in that section of New York, the Adirondacks, which its people proudly term' The North Country.'
I have traveled over most of America, in Europe, and in the region of Tierra del Fuego and Cape Horn. I have lived in Newfoundland, Alaska, Ireland, and Greenland. Wherever I have lived or traveled I have painted. And of most of these lives I have written."
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Source:
-Mahony, Latimer, and Folmsbee. Illustrators of Children's Books: 1744-1945. Horn Book Inc., Boston; 1947.
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