PART I - MAY 27-29, 2019 VERMONT: FLIGHT FROM THE CITY
ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018-19 Part I Vermont: Flight from the City May 27-30, 2019 ABOVE – ROCKWELL KENT’S “EGYPT” Shadow & Light in Vermont by Jamie Franklin and Jake Milgram Wien – exhibit catalogue (June 9 – Oct. 30, 2012) at the Bennington Museum, Bennington, Vermont. The Rockwell Kent Vermont painting on the cover, Nirvana (1921), is from a private collection. Oil on canvas, 28” x 44” The sources for this series about the home Rockwell Kent called “Egypt” at Arlington, Vermont, comes from his autobiography, It’s Me O Lord (1955) (IMOL); An American Saga: The Life and Times of Rockwell Kent by David Traxel (1980); Rockwell Kent’s “Egypt”: Shadow & Light in Vermont (S&L) (2012) by Jamie Franklin and Jake Wien; from a May 22, 2019 phone interview with Jamie Franklin; from various discussions and emails with Jake Wien; three articles by Joan G. Schroeter in The Kent Coll