1982 Rockwell Kent: An Anthology of His Works

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, With Dustwrapper

The first edition of this work in a quarter cloth binding with pictorial boards, with the original unclipped dust wrapper.

Illustrated with ninety colour plates, twenty black-and-white reproductions of his paintings, and eighteen black-and-white reproductions of his drawings, as well as many reproductions of his book illustrations and engravings. Collated, complete.

Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) was an American artist, writer, and adventurer whose work anticipated Art Deco. This lavishly illustrated anthology collects a definitive selection of his wood engravings, lithographs, paintings, book illustrations, designs, and autobiographical writings.

Fridolf Johnson, a leading authority on the work of Rockwell Kent, edited this anthology and provided the extensive biographical introduction.