Part 1 JULY 2-8: CARL RUGGLES & ROCKWELL KENT
ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018-19 Part I - Carl Ruggles & Rockwell Kent July 2-8, 2019 ABOVE – At left, American composer Carl Ruggles. At right, Rockwell Kent. BELOW – A Dec. 30, 1913 letter from Ruggles to Kent. Wikipedia photos. Letter from the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institute. By the fall of 1919 Rockwell Kent’s Alaska book is in the publisher’s hands. On Aug. 8 th from “Egypt” he writes to his good friend, composer Carl Ruggles (1876-1971) apologizing for his unanswered letters. He had met Ruggles, conductor of the local symphony, in Winona, Minnesota, in May1913 while overseeing the construction of two mansions. He traveled west in 1912 with his wife, Kathleen, and the two children, Rockie and little Kathleen. Near the construction site they found an abandoned schoolhouse where they settled. As a member of the International Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners in America --