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Rockwell Kent Wood Engraving "The Drifter" - $2,800 (UWS)
condition:
excellent
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Signed in pencil lower right.
5.38" H x 6 7/8" W
Beautifully framed.
Title: Drifter.
Edition: 250.
Burne-Jones 92.
Published by Associated American Artists, New York, and sold with original receipt and documentation. A superb, evenly-printed impression, this engraving is in the permanent collection of the Whitney, The National Gallery, the Amon Carter, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Princeton University Art Museum.
Rockwell Kent (1882–1971). The American realist Rockwell Kent was born in Tarrytown, New York and first studied painting in 1900 under William Merritt Chase while attending the Columbia University School of Architecture. In 1904 he enrolled in the New York School of Art, where he studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller. Kent’s many interests—architecture, painting, illustration, carpentry, and writing—were enhanced by the widespread, often exotic, locales he visited. He was grounded in the American realist tradition and rarely painted urban scenes like his contemporaries George Bellows and John Sloan. The Federal Public Works Administration commissioned Kent in 1935 to paint two murals for the new post office building in Washington, D.C. He enjoyed acclaim as a major American artist during the 1930s.