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JULY 27 - AUG. 2, 2019 PART 2: WILDERNESS AND THE ALASKA PAINTINGS

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ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018-19 Part 2 – Wilderness & the Alaska Paintings: 1920 July 27-Aug. 2, 2019 ABOVE – The house at “Egypt.” Photo from a private Kent family album. I live not in myself, but I become/Portion of that around me; and to me/High mountains are a feeling, but the hum/Of human cities torture.          Lord Byron in “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage.” When I’m not painting the very thought of it is bitter to me – I don’t know whether I’m a genius or a failure – I guess I don’t care.           Rockwell Kent to Carl Ruggles, Nov. 1919. Before I write about the opening of Rockwell Kent’s Alaska paintings exhibition with the publication of Wilderness -- and the reviews – I want to cover some of the correspondence I’ve found about his preparation for those events. I’ve quoted some of this earlier, but here I want to put the material in chronological order. On Fox Island