ROCKWELL KENT'S 1918 FOX ISLAND CHRISTMAS

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ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL
100 YEARS LATER
by Doug Capra © 2018
ROCKWELL KENT'S FOX ISLAND CHRISTMAS
Dec. 20, 2019



ABOVE and  BELOW -- Along the Gulf Coast of Alaska we've had unusually warm weather the last few months. In Seward as of today -- Dec. 20, 2019 -- we've had only two inches of snow, and that lasted only a few days. We have had much rain. This week it stared cooling down and clearing up with open skies and lots of sun -- as brief as that is. We are now approaching the shortest day of the year. I took these two photos this week. In the photo above, the sun rises yesterday -- Thursday, Dec. 19 at 10:29 a.m. I'm facing south east. The sun is rising behind Fox Island, and Rockwell wouldn't have seen it until later in the day. But on a day like that -- which they did have this time of year back in 1918 -- the two would have noted the glow on the mountains to the west, which Kent recorded in some of his paintings. That's a Northwestern Crow in the foreground. The photo below is from Monday, Dec. 16, 2019, just before the sun rises over the peaks along the Resurrection Peninsula. I'm shooting from the old choir loft in the Resurret-Art Coffee House Gallery, which is an old (1917) Methodist, and later Lutheran Church. Capra photos.



I've taken a break from the writing while doing some research. Very soon I'll post a short series on a mysterous relationship or affair Rockwell Kent had with a fascinating woman shortly after his second marriage. It's another rabbit hole, I admit -- but it sheds light on the world of New York City Rockwell Kent lived in during 1926-27. 

For now, I offer you a reprint of Christmas 1918 on Fox Island. 

 https://rockwellkentjournal.blogspot.com/2018/12/normal-0-false-false-false-en-us-x-none_23.html


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