Rockwell Kent "Wilderness" Centennial Journal

ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018-19 Part 10 – Wilderness & the Alaska Paintings: Influences & Reviews Aug. 29-31, 2019 ABOVE – An ad for Wilderness in the Dec. 17, 1920 New York Tribune . BELOW – A review of Wilderness in the Aug. 24, 1920 issue of The Guardian (London) Like critic Henry McBride, who calls Kent a young artist (anyone 35 or under in his mind) -- so too, Jesse Lee Bennett, in his March 27, 1920 Baltimore Sun review of Wilderness -- refers to the artist as a youngish artist (“near 40”). While on his quest, seeking a new environment which would bring him vivid new inspiration , Kent doesn’t follow classic footsteps, according to Bennett. If he did he would settle in some bizarre, little-known and exotic place, preferably warm and pleasant. There he should have made sketches and paintings of outlandish folk, preferably in some outlandish style and medium. Next, according to...

ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018-19 Part 9 – Wilderness & the Alaska Paintings: The Reviews Aug. 27-29, 2019 ABOVE – Various editions of Wilderness . The edition with my foreword is at lower left, a reprint of the 1970 special signed and boxed limited edition overseen by Kent himself – at upper right. At lower right is the 1930 Modern Library edition. At upper left is the 1920 edition. If you look for the book at amazon.com, you find several recent new printings of the 1920 edition. Since it was published before 1920, the book is now in the public domain. BELOW – Various editions of Northern Christmas . For the original 1941 edition published by the American Artists Group (at upper left), Kent excerpted the Christmas chapter from Wilderness w ith minor changes and a special format. The 1996 edition with my foreword is at upper right. The boxed edition at front was published in 1983 by Random House wit...