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JANUARY 28 - 31 PART 2: ROCKWELL KENT 1928-35 - VICTORIA HUTSON, LEON DABO & WALTER PACH

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Rockwell Kent Wilderness Centennial Journal 100 Years Later by Doug Capra © 2020) Part 2 – Rockwell Kent 1928-35 Victoria Ebbels Hutson, Leon Debo & Walter Pach January 28- 31, 2020 ABOVE – Victoria Hunley 1963. Photo inscribed to her daughter, Hazel. Huntly papers online at the Archives of American Art. BELOW – An article about Rockwell Kent from the April 26, 1925 Brooklyn Daily Eagle. The artist has recently returned from Tierra del Fuego. Even before his third book, N by E is published as a Literary Guild selection, Kent’s fame has become legendary. This article begins: As all the world knows, that is, the reading and art loving world, Rockwell Kent has made a trip to the ends of the earth… The Besetting Sin of America The besetting sin of America is lack of faith in our artists and thinkers. We have furnished some of the greatest artists, such as Whistler, Sargent and Mary Cassatt, yet we could not keep them here because we did