NOVEMBER 7 - 10: THE 1920'S - WITH BLACK TIE AND DINNER COAT
ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018 Part 2 – Back from Tierra del Fuego November 7-10, 2019 ABOVE – Another Misty Day in Seward – Photo by Jim Pfeiffenberger. Looking northwest. The slope of Mount Marathon at far left. Benson Mountain in the center. Mount Ascension at right. BELOW – Captain Joshua Slocum on the Spray traveling through the Strait of Magellan. Pen and ink by Rockwell Kent, from A Treasury of Sea Stories (A.S. Barnes & Company, 1948) The 1920s With Black Tie and Dinner Coat In the decade of the 1920s, Rockwell Kent was perhaps more “social” than at any other period of his career. He often went out in society with black tie and dinner coat, and moved, in New York or at Long Island estates, in the circle of the Ralph Pulitzers, the Watson Webbs, the Whitneys, and Gordon Abbott and his wife, Katherine, who later became Mrs. J. Cheever Cowdin. (134) ...