JANUARY 9 - 12, 2020 PART 3: THE ALLURE AND MAGNETISM OF ROCKWELL KENT
ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018 Part 3 -- The Allure and Magnetism of Rockwell Kent January 9-12, 2020 ABOVE – Rockwell and Frances Kent in Greenland about 1930. Photo source. BELOW – Sea Smoke, photo by Callie Bacon who works at Seward Properties. This week the temperature in Seward has stood between zero and ten degrees, with that fierce North Wind Rockwell Kent wrote about and painted. The wind-chill has been between 10 and 15 below zero. In freezing weather like this, the sea water is warmer than the air, thus what we call sea smoke rising above the whitecaps and whipped around by the wind. On his date 101 years ago, Rockwell and his son experienced this kind of weather while waiting patiently on Fox Island for their host, Lars Matt Olson, to return from Seward. He had left on January 2 nd to get the mail and had been expected to return within a few days. He did finally return on Jan. 11 th . Her...