Rockwell Kent "Wilderness" Centennial Journal

ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018-19 April 19, 2019 -- ABOVE -- Dall's Porpoise splash along (rooster tailing) beside Bear Glacier in Resurrection Bay. Photo by Jim Pfeiffenberger. Kent and Rockie are back in New York by now. In the Archives of American Art online collection of Kent letters, we now have little to go on regarding happenings. There is no need for Rockwell and Kathleen to have a lengthy correspondence. They are together again. The next letter I find from Kent to his wife is dated September 30, 1919. There may be more somewhere, and others to friends and associates. In his 1955 autobiography Rockwell writers, “Of course our homecoming was a joyous one: we loved the family even more than we loved God. Nor was it the less joyous in that I saw ourselves as rescuers: we were to lead them out of Egypt and into the land of Canaan, onto the land where the grass would be in place of pavements, and tr