Artist Catalogue: Rockwell Kent

American, 1881-1940

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Adirondack Cabin -  KENT

Adirondack Cabin
Lithograph, 1946, Burne-Jones/Rightmire 140, edition 100. 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 in. Signed in pencil, lower right. This is a fine impression in fine condition. The margins are full. This print was published by the Print Club of Rochester and the edition was printed by George Miller. Adirondack Cabin is more of a landscape than a figure study which is the opposite of what we expect to see. In 1928, Kent and his wife established a permanent home in the Adirondacks.
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Bowsprit -  KENT

Bowsprit
Pencil on tracing paper, probably 1930, See Burne-Jones 56. 5 1/2 x 7 in. (image). Signed upper left, "Rockwell Kent (sketch for woodblock 'Bowsprit')." Our drawing is in very good condition. (The sheet was mounted quite some time ago to a thin, archival rag board, apparently to soften the look of some creasing and wrinkling in the image.) This outstanding, working drawing is not mentioned in the Burne-Jones catalog as the author was probably not aware of it. He does, however, reference and illustrate a preliminary drawing from the Zigrosser Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, but it is considerably less developed than our work. We are offering this outstanding drawing WITH AN IMPRESSION OF THE PRINT for which this is the definitive study. The woodcut "Bowsprit" was printed in an edition of 120 and it measures the same size as the drawing (which has a pencil borderline on all sides). The margins are full and the condition is excellent. The woodcut is signed in pencil, lower right. (The canceled block is part of the Adler Collection in the Princeton University Library.) Provenance for both works: Baldwin-Wallace College, Ohio (deacessioned, 2010.)
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Deep Water -  KENT

Deep Water
Wood engraving, 1931, Burne Jones/Rightmire 87, edition 170. 5 3/8 x 6 7/8 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is fine, as well. (Two small, old hinges remain at the top edge, verso.) The catalogue cites eight impressions in museum collections. The original drawing is in the Kent Collection at Columbia.
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Diver -  KENT

Diver
Wood engraving, 1931, Burne Jones/Rightmire 88, edition 150. 7 3/4 x 5 3/8 in. Signed in pencil. This is a superb impression printed on off-white wove paper. The margins are full. The condition is fine apart from the very faintest suggestion of light toning within an earlier mat opening. This was one of twelve prints by Kent used in a national advertising campaign for the American Car and Foundry Company. There's a variant title for this work; "Masthead Diver."
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Drifter -  KENT

Drifter
Wood engraving, 1933, Burne Jones / Rightmire 92, edition 250. 5 1/2 x 6 7/8 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression printed on thin cream wove paper. The margins are full and the condition is fine. (There's just a very faint suggestion of toning within an old mat opening.) The cancelled block is in the Detroit Institute of Arts.
$3,800

Forest Pool -  KENT

Forest Pool
Wood engraving, 1927, Burne-Jones / Rightmire 14, edition 150. 5 1/2 x 8 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a fine, rich impression of this early work. The margins are full. The condition is very good apart from a small, light stain in the upper margin, well apart from the image. The preliminary drawing is in the Kent Collection at the Columbia University Library.
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Girl on Cliff -  KENT

Girl on Cliff
Wood engraving, 1930, Burne Jones / Rightmire 57; edition 1,750. 6 1/2 x 4 3/4 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is also fine. This very appealing work was published by the Literary Guild of America and given to new subscribers to the Book Club. Kent received fifty impressions for his efforts. In spite of the large edition this print is not all that common.
$1,750

Good-Bye Day -  KENT

Good-Bye Day
Lithograph, 1946, Burne Jones/Rightmire 139, edition 150. 13 3/4 x 9 3/4 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a fine impression in fine condition with full margins. This work was printed by George Miller for the Print Club of Albany. An alternate title of "The Water Carrier" sometimes appears on this print. Seven impressions are cited in the raisonné in museum collections.
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Home Port -  KENT

Home Port
Wood engraving, 1931, Burne-Jones 62, edition 150. 6 3/8 x 7 1/4 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is fine apart from a soft wrinkle or paper imperfection in the right side of the margin, an inch away from the image. The cancelled block is in the collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
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Masthead -  KENT

Masthead
Wood engraving, 1926, Burne Jones 7, edition 105. 8 x 5 1/2 in. Signed in pencil, lower right. This is a superb, luminous impression with full margins. The condition is fine. The block for this great, early work is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The catalogue cites six impressions in museum collections.
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Memory -  KENT

Memory
Lithograph printed with two stones; black and grey, 1928, Burne Jones/Rightmire 28; edition 100. 14 1/2 x 19 1/8 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a fine, luminous impression printed on FRANCE watermarked paper with full margins. The condition is fine. This large and ambitious work was printed by George Miller in New York. A finished drawing is in the Kent Collection at Columbia.
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Nightmare -  KENT

Nightmare
Lithograph, 1941, Burne-Jones 123, edition 55. 11 x 8 in. Signed in pencil. A fine impression in fine condition with full margins. Watermark "ALL RAG." A rare print.
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Nightmare -  KENT

Nightmare
Lithograph, 1941, Burne Jones / Rightmire 123, edition 55. 10 3/4 x 8 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a superb impression of this rare and powerful print. The margins are full with a partial watermark showing, "ALL RAG." The condition is fine. The original drawing is at the Kupferstitchkabinett Kunstmuseum in Basel, Switzerland. This lithograph is located in the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Columbia University Library, the Hermitage Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, the Library of Congress and the Philadelphia Museum of Art among others.
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Oarsman -  KENT

Oarsman
Wood engraving, 1931, Burne Jones / Rightmire 86, edition 150. 5 3/8 x 6 7/8 in. Signed in pencil. Here we have a fine, rich impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. This was one of twelve prints by Kent used in a national advertising campaign for the American Car and Foundry Company.
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Pasture Gate -  KENT

Pasture Gate
Lithograph, 1928, Burne Jones / Rightmire 26, edition 110. 10 5/8 x 7 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. This print was published by Weyhe Gallery and printed by George Miller. It was based on a drawing of the artist's first wife, Kathleen Whiting Kent. Pasture Gate is listed in multiple museum collections.
$1,500

Revisitation -  KENT

Revisitation
Lithograph, 1928, Burne Jones / Rightmire 22, edition 100. 8 1/2 x 13 3/4 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine, rich impression printed on RIVES with full margins. The condition is fine apart from old hinges at the top corners. "This print demonstrates an interesting combination of crayon and tusche wash technique used to advantage in the sharp contrasts of early twilight, which lends a religiously mystical feeling to the work." (See Burne-Jones, pg 44.)
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Roof Tree -  KENT

Roof Tree
Lithograph, 1928, Burne-Jones / Rightmire 21, edition 100. 11 x 14 3/4 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine, luminous impression with full margins. The condition is also fine. This large print depicts Kent's home in the Adirondacks known as Asgaard. Scholarship suggests the figure on the roof is Carl Zigrosser (1891-1975), the prominent dealer, print scholar and curator.
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Sea and Sky -  KENT

Sea and Sky
Wood engraving on maple, 1931, Burne-Jones 85, edition 150. 10 x 6 1/2 in. Signed in pencil lower right. This is a superb impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. This was one of twelve prints used by Kent in a national advertising campaign for the American Car and Foundry Company.
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Starry Night -  KENT

Starry Night
Wood engraving, 1933, Burne Jones/Rightmire 103, edition 1,750. 7 x 5 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression printed on a cream wove paper. The margins are full. The condition is fine apart from two old hinges, verso, which are visible from the front. This print was used as a prescription premium by the Literary Guild of America book club.
$1,650

The Clinic -  KENT

The Clinic
Lithograph printed with a tint stone, 1934, Burne-Jones 109, edition unknown. 6 11/16 x 6 11/16 in. Signed in pencil and inscribed "Trial proof." A fine impression in fine condition. Printed on RIVES watermarked paper with a deckle all around. Registration marks showing on top and bottom, just above and just below the printed border. This is a color variation from the description in the catalogue with the border printed in light gray and the image printed in reddish brown.
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Weltschmertz -  KENT

Weltschmertz
Lithograph, 1947, Burne Jones / Rightmire 141; edition 100. 13 3/4 x 19 1/2 in. Signed in pencil. Here we have a fine impression printed on wove paper. The margins are wide and the condition is fine. There are preliminary sketches and a tracing in the Kent collection at Columbia University. Weltschmertz translated from the German means "world weariness." It's about melancholy and pensive thoughts. Impressions are cited in five museum collections.
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Weltschmertz -  KENT

Weltschmertz
Lithograph, 1947, Burne Jones/Rightmire 141, edition 100. 13 3/4 x 19 1/2 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a fine impression with wide and possibly the full margins. There are preliminary sketches and a tracing in the Kent collection at Columbia University. Weltschmertz translated from the German means "world weariness." It's about melancholy and pensive thoughts. Impressions are cited in five museum collections.
SOLD


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