Rockwell Kent photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1933

Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), an American artist was born in Tarrytown, New York, was well educated in art. He did his first significant work at Monhegan Island, Maine. Later he traveled widely, doing other landscape and seascape work in Newfoundland, Alaska, Terra del Fuego and Greenland. He also did a great deal of work illustrating working people, serving as an illustrator for The Masses, a popular left-wing magazine. Rockwell Kent photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1933 Apr. ... Rockwell Kent photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1933 Apr. ... 1882 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... Tarrytown is a village located in Westchester County, New York. ... Although today the word art usually refers to the visual arts, the concept of what art is has continuously changed over centuries. ... Monhegan is an island located in Lincoln County, Maine about 12 NM off the coast. ... The Masses was a journal founded in New York in 1911 by Piet Vlag. ...

Approached in 1926 by publisher R. R. Donnelley to produce an illustrated edition of Richard Henry Dana's Two Years Before the Mast, Kent suggested Moby Dick instead. Published in 1930, the deluxe edition sold out immediately; a lower-priced Random House edition became a Book-of-the-Month Club selection. A previously obscure book, Moby Dick was rediscovered by critics in the 1920s. The success of the Rockwell Kent illustrated edition was a factor in its becoming the recognized classic it is today. 1926 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Richard Henry Dana Jr. ... Two Years Before the Mast a book by the American author Richard Henry Dana, Jr. ... Moby-Dick book cover Moby-Dick - the official title of the first edition - is a novel by Herman Melville. ... 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Random House is a publishing division of Bertelsmann AG. It was founded in 1927 by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, two years after they had acquired the Modern Library imprint. ... Moby-Dick book cover Moby-Dick - the official title of the first edition - is a novel by Herman Melville. ... 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ...

Kent was active in left-wing politics. In 1939, Kent joined the Harlem Lodge of the International Workers Order (IWO), a pro-Communist fraternal organization. A lithograph by Kent became the organization's logo in 1940, and from 1944 to 1953 he served as the organization's President. 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Original logo of the International Workers Order (IWO), 1930-39. ... A fraternal organization is an organization that represents the relationship between its members as akin to brotherhood. ... 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ...

He was a victim of McCarthyism during the 1950s. As a devotee of realistic art, he had also fallen from popular favor. McCarthyism, named after Senator Joseph McCarthy, was a period of intense anti-communism, and is also popularly known as the second Red Scare. ... Millennia: 1st millennium - 2nd millennium - 3rd millennium Events and trends Technology United States tests the first fusion bomb. ...

List of works written and illustrated by Rockwell Kent

• Voyaging Southwards from the Strait of Magellan - About Kent's travels in Tierra del Fuego.
• Wilderness: A Journey of Quiet Adventure in Alaska - About the year Kent and his young son spent living on Fox Island in Resurrection Bay, Alaska.
• N by E - About Kent's disastrous attempt to sail from New York to Greenland.
• Salamina - About the year Kent spent living and working in Igdlorssuit, Greenland.
• It's Me, O Lord! - Kent's autobiography.
• This is My Own - An autobiographical account of Kent's struggles with the US establishment from the 1930s through to the anti-communist witch-hunts of the 1950s.

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List of works written by others and illustrated by Rockwell Kent

• City Child - poetry by Selma Robinson
• The Mountains Wait - dust jacket only
• Seed - novel by Charles Norris - dust jacket only
• Zest - novel by Charles Norris - dust jacket only
• Candy - novel
• Moby Dick - novel by Herman Melville
• Leaves of Grass - poetry by Walt Whitman
• Erewhon - novel by Samuel Butler
• Candide - novel by Voltaire
• The Bridge at San Luis Rey - novel by
• Faust - by Goethe
• Paul Bunyan - novel by Esther Shephard
• Gisli's Saga - Mediaeval Icelandic saga
• Autumn Leaves - social commentary by P W Litchfield
• Canterbury Tales
• The Decameron - novel by Gionvanni Boccaccio
• The Complete Works of Shakespeare

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External links

• Brief online biography (http://www2.plattsburgh.edu/museum/kentkent.htm)