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PART 3 - JUNE 9--14, 2019 VERMONT: A REVIEW IN THE NEW YORK SUN

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ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018-19 Part 3 - Vermont: Flight from the City Review of Rockwell Kent’s Alaska drawings    in The NY Sun June 9-14, 2019 VERMONT: Flight from the city Part 3 Henry McBride’s May 11, 1919 Review of Rockwell Kent’s Alaska drawings   in The NY Sun ABOVE – The May 11, 1919 Henry McBride review in The Sun (New York) of Rockwell Kent’s Knoedler Gallery Drawings Exhibit. As May 1919 comes to an end, Rockwell Kent is delighted at the success of the Knoedler Gallery show of his drawings. He now has a book contracted for a publication date to coincide with a show of his Alaska paintings in early 1920. He has located the Vermont property he will name Egypt and is working to purchase it. On May 11, 1919 an enthusiastic review of the Knoedler Gallery Exhibit appears in The Sun written by prominent art critic, Henry McBride (1867-1962.).  McBride was born into the period o