NOV. 12 - 15 PART 4: INTO THE 1920s
ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018 Part 4 – Into the 1920s November 12-15, 2019 ABOVE – This is the image of Rockwell Kent the press presents to the public as his fame trends in the 1920s. He’s not just a painter, he’s the essence of adventurous manhood -- virile and pugnacious; dangerous and desirable; distant, yet an intelligent and sophisticated charmer one could easily meet in New York high society. In the Buffalo Truth for Oct. 23, 1924, columnist Enid Strong writes, Last night I went to the first Playboy ball of the season. Three affairs of its kind are given...by Egmont Arens. {Playboy was a serious art magazine put out by Arens, not the modern magazine of that name} Many celebrities were at this costume ball, including Kent himself, his close friend George Chappell, writer Heywood Broun, Frank Crowinshield, Charles and Albert Boni, Hugo Gellert, S.J. Kaufman, Deems Taylor, and Charles Houson Towne. B...