PART 2 JULY 9 - 12: CARL RUGGLES AND ROCKWELL KENT
ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018-19 Part 2 - Carl Ruggles & Rockwell Kent July 9-12, 2019 ABOVE – On March 6, 1969, Kent sent this caricature he drew of Carl Ruggles under the pen name of Hogarth, Jr. to John Kirkpatrick to be copied. It’s dated May 1922 on the back. Kirkpatrick was documenting Ruggles’ correspondence and life and asked Kent for help. Kent wrote: Since you were here, I have by chance run across a reproduction of a tiny drawing of Carl that appeared in “Vanity Fair countless many years ago. It being, as I assure it is, the “spitting image” of Carl at that time, it should dismiss from you any thought that my Captain Ahab was to any degree whatever inspired by Carl. Some had speculated that Kent used Ruggles as his model for Ahab in his famous illustrations for Moby Dick . Kirkpatrick returned the drawing with a copy and in an undated letter and wrote: It is indeed a most amusing caricature o