PART 4 - JUNE 14-17, 2019 FLIGHT FROM THE CITY: THE MAY 31, 1919 LITERARY DIGEST ARTICLE
ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018-19 Part 4 - Vermont: Flight from the City The May 31, 1919 Literary Digest Article June 15-17, 2019 ABOVE – The cover of the May 31, 1919 Literary Digest – the issue that contained the article and reprint of the May 11, 1919 Henry McBride review of Rockwell Kent’s Knoedler Gallery Drawings Exhibition in The Sun (New York). By this time, Rockwell may still be searching for the perfect place to settle in Vermont. He finally does find his rural refuge. In a June 20, 1919 letter to Carl Zigrosser he writes: “It’s more beautiful than any place I’ve ever seen! There are fertile fields, orchards young and old, high hillside pastures, noble groves of maple, hickory and pine. The verdant valley lies like a map below us.” But he can’t afford the $3000 price. Fortunately, a recent friend and supporter, writer Dorothy Canfield Fisher, loans him the money. The critics, like Henr