Rockwell Kent "Wilderness" Centennial Journal

 ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018 Part 1: The Allure and Magnetism of Rockwell Kent Dec. 29, 2019 ABOVE – The “Swashbuckling” Rockwell Kent (left) with his traveling companion aboard the SS Curaca bound for Punta Arenas, Chile in 1922. His first book published in 1920 -- Wilderness: A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska – was followed in 1924 with Voyaging Southward from the Strait of Magellan . These two books along with his art established Kent as the adventurous and masculine artist-writer – an image he encouraged and that contributed to his appeal to women. During this time he becomes known for his erotic illustrations to books like Voltaire’s Candide and the Memoirs of Casanova. BEL0W – Rockwell Kent in later years with an unknown woman. Both photos from the Rockwell Kent Gallery at Plattsburgh State University in Plattsburgh, NY. Since I’ll soon be posting an entry about another of Ro...

ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018 HAPPY SEWARD, ALASKA SOLSTICE Dec. 21, 2019 ABOVE -- Photo by Tessa Adelmann, taken this week on the shortest day of the year. The sun sets along Resurrection Bay at Seward, Alaska. Fox Island is at far upper left in the distance. BELOW -- Photo by Jim Pfeiffenberger. Seward Street Scene, taken this week. Looking north up Fifth Avenue from the edge of Resurrection Bay. The second house up on the left is the restored Cable House, built in 1905, where Rockwell Kent sent and received the wires he sent to and received from his wife, Kathleen. BELOW -- Some of my photos taken on Dec. 21, 2019 between 1:27 and 1:55 p.m. from Seward-- accompanied by some of Rockwell Kent's paintings of the sun taken from Fox Island. BELOW -- Pioneers or Into the Sun 1919 BELOW -- Sunglare 1918-19