Rockwell Kent "Wilderness" Centennial Journal

ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018 Early to Mid-December 2018  BELOW --  The sun directly over Fox Island at 11:50 a.m. on Dec. 17, 2018. Taken from the south end of Seward. Capra photo. BELOW -- Pioneers (or Into the Sun) , 1919. Oil on canvas, 28 x 44 ¼ in. In a Dec. 8, 1918 letter to Kathleen, Kent describes a painting that could be the one below: “A blue sunlit day with the mountains sharp and clear. A picture of our cove with the sun setting straight in the middle and reflected in a broad glare right at my feet. A little cabin is in this picture and there will be people and whales.” If this is the picture described, Kent decided to take out the whales. SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT THE KENT ALASKA LETTERS I’m writing this on Monday, Dec. 17, 2018. As you can see, I’m a few days behind in my attempt to keep right on the actual date. The process of transcribing the Kent Alaska letters is enjoy...