Rockwell Kent "Wilderness" Centennial Journal

I'll be speaking on Nov. 9th at the Anchorage Museum along with three other Rockwell Kent experts. My topic will be what I call the "Not-So-Quiet-Adventure" that Kent had while on Fox Island. Beneath the inspirational text of his book,  Wilderness: A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska, " there lurks in his letters to his wife, Kathleen, and to his amour, Hildegarde Hirsch -- his uncertainty, depression, and loneliness. There is tremendous contrast between the uplifting, redemptive story he tells in his book and the torment and inner turmoil brought to him by his demons. As we look back on Kent's rapid rise to fame during the 1920's, we must realize that while on Fox Island during 1918-19 he had no idea where is life was going, no assurance of his marriage, his love affair or his art career. https://allevents.in/anchorage/rockwell-kent-mini-symposium/20006868777594 PHOTOS "Wilderness" "Cain" "Lone Man" ...

ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018 Oct. 28-30, 2018             It’s Monday, Oct., 28 , 1918  on Fox Island. The weather is mild, and Rockie is running around with bare knees because he needs woolen socks. Kent has written home asking Kathleen and his mother to make some for him. Olson has been aching to get to Seward but he missed his window today so he’ll try tomorrow. Kent is not inspired by what he has painted today. He and Rockie devoured Robinson Crusoe a while back and finished Treasure Island two days ago. Kent has now started on The Water Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby by (1863) by Charles Kingsley. Born in 1882, Kent is still very much a Victorian in many ways and, like some of the other books he’s reading to Rockie, this one too probably brings back his own childhood reading memories. He enjoys them as much as his son. Water Babies is a ...