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.
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| Killer Whales in Resurrection Bay, Alaska, 1919. |
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| Adirondack View, 1928-30. |
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| Dan Ward's Stack, Ireland, 1927. |
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| Seal Hunter, North Greenland, 1933. |
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| From Palmer Hill, 1946. |
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| Asgaard Farm, circa 1948. |
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| Untitled/unknown title, 1932-33. |
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| Sun, Mañana, Monhegan, 1907. |
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| Afternoon on the Sea, Monhegan, 1907. |
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| Tierra Del Fuego, South America (Dome Mountain), circa 1922. |
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| Salmon Waters, Ireland, 1926-27. |
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| Late Afternoon, Monhegan Island, 1906-07. |
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| December Eighth, 1941, 1941. |
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| Alaska Impression, 1919. |
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| (I haven't been able to find a title or date for this painting.) |
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| May, North Greenland, 1935-37. |
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| Cloudy day, Fjord in Northern Greenland, 1933. |
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| Monhegan, circa 1948. |
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| Summer Day, Asgaard, 1950. |
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| Lobster Catcher, 1955. |
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| Early November, North Greenland, 1933. |
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| Peace and Freedom, Maine Coast, 1909. |
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| Greenland Tryst, 1929. |
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| Young Spruce, The Coast of Maine, 1957. |
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| Toilers of the Sea, 1907. |
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| Valley of Vermont, 1921. |
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| Sturrall, Donegal, Ireland, 1926-1927. |
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| A Village on the Island, Maine Coast, 1909. |
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| Moonlight, Winter, circa 1940. |
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| Squall, Greenland, circa 1933-37. |
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| Sun Glare, Alaska, 1919. |
