Rockwell Kent was born on June 21, 1882 in Tarrytown, New York. He attended Columbia University and later studied painting under Robert Henry. He worked as a fisherman, carpenter, traveled a lot. As an artist, he debuted alongside young innovators at an exhibition of independent artists in 1910. In his work, which is characterized by a courageous spirituality of images, a clear, strong drawing, and a peculiar color, the artist applied various techniques with equal success - oil painting, watercolor,
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Rockwell Kent was born on June 21, 1882 in Tarrytown, New York. He attended Columbia University and later studied painting under Robert Henry. He worked as a fisherman, carpenter, traveled a lot. As an artist, he debuted alongside young innovators at an exhibition of independent artists in 1910. In his work, which is characterized by a courageous spirituality of images, a clear, strong drawing, and a peculiar color, the artist applied various techniques with equal success - oil painting, watercolor, pen drawing, lithography, wood engraving - and combined classical form with a romantic mood. Rockwell Kent's themes and motifs included landscapes, sea views and dramatic scenes. He illustrated the works of American, Western European, Russian authors and his own books; among them - Voltaire's Candide (1928), T. Wilder's Bridge of King Louis (1929), J. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1930), G. Melville and Beowulf (1931). He also created a number of anti-fascist posters and cartoons.
As a writer, Rockwell Kent made his debut in 1920 with a book about Alaska, In the Wild Land. The writer and artist lived for a long time in Greenland, a kind of saga about which was made by his books Course N by E (1930), Salamina (1935) and The Greenland Diary (1962). In them he vividly described the life of the Eskimos, gave remarkable descriptions of the North. His other literary works include his autobiographical works This Is My Own (1940) and This Is Me, Lord (1955), and his book On Men and Mountains (1959). Rockwell Kent is known as a public figure, he was one of the initiators and authors of the historic Stockholm Proclamation, was a member of the World Peace Council (since 1955). In 1967 he was awarded the International Lenin Prize “For Strengthening Peace among Nations”.