Rockwell Kent "Wilderness" Centennial Journal

ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018 Working Toward Rockwell Kent’s 1935 Visit To Alaska Feb. 24, 2019 ABOVE – Rockwell and Kathleen Kent’s children in Antibes,France , circa 1923, From right: Rockie, Kathleen, Clara, Barbara, Gordon. After returning from his Tierra del Fuego journey, Rockwell sent Kathleen and the children off to France while he retreated to his farm at Arlington, Vermont to work on his second book and complete his new paintings. BELOW – Rockwell and Kathleen Kent’s children at Nice, France circa 1923. From left: Kathleen, Clara, Barbara, Gordon.  They are dressed for and have participated in the famous Nice Carnival of Flowers.   Rockie may have been at times back in the states with his father. My original intent was to move quickly from about 1922-23 to 1935 when Rockwell Kent returned to Alaska under a grant from the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to paint a mural for the Post

Rockwell Kent Wilderness Centennial Journal 100 Years Later by Doug Capra © 2020) Rockwell Kent Debates Walter Pach 1926 Feb. 12-15,   2020 ABOVE – Rockwell Kent and Walter Pach. Wikipedia photos. BELOW – Headline from the March 15, 1926 New York Times. The modern American artist may be compared to the author who has no publisher. He has put forth a desperate struggle to do good work – make no mistake about that – and the general public has remained in chronic immobility. Apparently, nothing can shake the apathy of the Americans…they do not want art…The architect makes no provisions for decoration, the gregarious, homeless city dwellers have no room for precious objects, and the inhabitants of small towns spend their lives in rapid transit.          Thomas Craven in the American Mercury 1926, quoted in the Jan. 14, 1926 Palladium-Item (Richmond, VA). Rockwell Kent vs. Walter Pach “Is the American Museum to Be a Tomb or a Tenement?”