I've always loved Kent's wonderful - bold, mystical, brooding, perverse - black and white book illustrations, but I was surprised recently to discover - rediscover? - his remarkable paintings... my god, the color! Printmaker, illustrator, writer, adventurer - radical, philanderer - apparently he considered himself first and foremost a painter. I think these paintings corroborate that designation brilliantly.
Killer Whales in Resurrection Bay, Alaska, 1919. |
Adirondack View, 1928-30. |
Dan Ward's Stack, Ireland, 1927. |
Seal Hunter, North Greenland, 1933. |
From Palmer Hill, 1946. |
Asgaard Farm, circa 1948. |
Untitled/unknown title, 1932-33. |
Sun, Mañana, Monhegan, 1907. |
Afternoon on the Sea, Monhegan, 1907. |
Tierra Del Fuego, South America (Dome Mountain), circa 1922. |
Salmon Waters, Ireland, 1926-27. |
Late Afternoon, Monhegan Island, 1906-07. |
December Eighth, 1941, 1941. |
Alaska Impression, 1919. |
(I haven't been able to find a title or date for this painting.) |
May, North Greenland, 1935-37. |
Cloudy day, Fjord in Northern Greenland, 1933. |
Monhegan, circa 1948. |
Summer Day, Asgaard, 1950. |
Lobster Catcher, 1955. |
Early November, North Greenland, 1933. |
Peace and Freedom, Maine Coast, 1909. |
Greenland Tryst, 1929. |
Young Spruce, The Coast of Maine, 1957. |
Toilers of the Sea, 1907. |
Valley of Vermont, 1921. |
Sturrall, Donegal, Ireland, 1926-1927. |
A Village on the Island, Maine Coast, 1909. |
Moonlight, Winter, circa 1940. |
Squall, Greenland, circa 1933-37. |
Sun Glare, Alaska, 1919. |
beautiful work!
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