Rockwell Kent "Wilderness" Centennial Journal

ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018-19 Part 1 – Wilderness & the Alaska Paintings: 1920 July 21-24, 2019 ABOVE – An ad announcing Wilderness in the March 7, 1920 New York Times . BELOW – An ad announcing the show of Kent’s paintings in the Feb. 29, 1920 New York Herald. this wholeness of essence Wilderness and the Alaska Paintings Part I Places have their identity as flowers or creatures have, their soul, or genius loci. A Place, in nature, is, after all, only a larger more complex organism, a symbiosis of many lives. All inviolate places have this wholeness of essence; their perfection lies in their remaining intact, undisturbed by intrusion of any life which does not itself participate in that harmonious organic unity…Never, in later life, do we experience that sense of perfect arrival that is, in childhood, the term of every walk; we bring the whole of ourselves to the very place, w...