Rockwell Kent "Wilderness" Centennial Journal

ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018-19 Part 12– Wilderness & the Alaska Paintings: Influences & Reviews Sept. 6-9, 2019 ABOVE & BELOW – G.P. Putnam’s Sons brochure with excerpted reviews of Wilderness: A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska . Special thanks to Kent scholar Scott Ferris for sending me a digital copy. One of the more interesting reviews in the brochure above is from The New Statesman in London comparing Wilderness with Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman.  Another is by  American critic C. Lewis Hind had earlier described the artist as a combination of Walt Whitman and Winslow Homer. Others had compared Wilderness to Gauguin’s Noa Noa , Thoreau’s Walden , and Richard Henry Dana’s Two Years Before the Mast . But critics had a difficult time finding a proper genre for the book. It was travel-adventure-art-philosophy-poetry-memoir mixed with a good dose of a talented and eccent