Rockwell Kent "Wilderness" Centennial Journal

ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018-19 Part 5 – Wilderness & the Alaska Paintings: The Reviews Aug. 9-, 2019 ABOVE --  North Wind , 1918 What annoyed Kent in the McBride review, the artist notes in his 1955 autobiography, is the comment that “the paintings were worked up down here {in Vermont } from sketches” We know they weren’t, Kent adds in parenthesis . In Wilderness on Wed. Dec. 9, 1918 – after recording one of Olson’s stories – Kent writes: I would not have devoted all of the time I have to this day’s entry if I had not a good day’s work to my credit including the conception of a new picture so vivid that the doing of it will be mere copying. It is the “North Wind.” Surely after the past four days I may tell with authority of that wild Prince from the North. By Dec. 13 the painting is done and Kent writes: I made of my “North Wind” the most beautiful picture that ever was. I stood it...