Rockwell Kent art links 

Original works by Rockwell Kent available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 

Art Institute of Chicago   NEW!

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas   NEW!
(There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco   NEW!

Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
26 paintings

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City   NEW!

Museum of Modern Art, New York City

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.   NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist

Rockwell Kent at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
6 works online

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts

Akron Art Museum, Ohio   NEW!
(Click on the "View objects by this artist" link)

Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
4 works online (Note that this site opens each work in a new window)

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
19 works by the artist

Brooklyn Museum, New York City

Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
And Now Where

Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
And Women Must Weep

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences, Charleston, West Virginia

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Colby College Museum of Art, Maine
Monhegan, Maine, 1950

Crocker Art Museum, California
March Greenland, 1932-33

Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
3 works online

Dayton Art Institute, Ohio
Endless Energy For Limitless Living

Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine
Maine Coast, ca.1907

Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
Page forward to see additional works on the next page

Five College Museums Collections Database, Massachusetts

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.   NEW!

Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee
Glen (Ireland), 1926-27

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana

Los Angeles County Museum of Art   NEW!

Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia
(Note: Click the title to view the artwork details, not the thumbnail image.)

Maryland State Archives

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota

National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
2 landscape paintings online

National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole, Wyoming

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

Philadelphia Museum of Art   NEW!

Plattsburgh State University Art Museum, New York
Selections from the museums's Rockwell Kent collection

Portland Museum of Art, Maine

Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College, California

San Diego Museum of Art, California   NEW!

Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
Headlands, Monhegan

Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago

Rockwell Kent at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
From "Getting the Picture: Illustrated Letters from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art"

Southern Alleghenies Museum, Pennsylvania

Tampa Museum of Art, Florida
Skelpoonagh, Donegal Ireland, 1927

Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago   NEW!
5 works online

The Art Gallery at the University of Maryland
Hail and Farewell, woodcut

University of Kentucky Art Museum
Baker of the Bread of Abundance, 1945

Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania

Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
August XXIII, MCMXXVII, woodcut

 
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:

Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)

 

Art Signature Dictionary   NEW!

Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)

Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)

 

Rockwell Kent at The Art Renewal Center

Rockwell Kent at The Athenaeum
5 works online

California State University WorldImages Database

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site

Additional Image Search Tools:
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	Google Images: "Rockwell Kent"
	Bing Images: "Rockwell Kent"

 
 

Los Angeles Police Department, Art Theft Detail
Man and Woman Holding Flag

The Modernist Journals Project
(Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)

 

Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Rockwell Kent  
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info

Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
First Snow, Greenland, 1931

Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
"The Archetypal Landscapes of Rockwell Kent" (2005)

Resource Library Magazine
The View from Asgaard: Rockwell Kent's Adirondack Legacy

Resource Library Magazine
Ressurection Bay, Alaska

Resource Library Magazine

The New York Observer
"Two Rockwell Kents: A Moby-Dick Etcher And Stalin Admirer", article by Hilton Kramer

"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon Look Inside Books: Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader.              Search Inside Books: Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon.   search inside Voyaging: Southward from the Strait of Magellan look inside Distant Shores: The Odyssey of Rockwell Kent look inside Rockwell Kent's Forgotten Landscape look inside The View from Asgaard: Rockwell Kent's Adirondack Legacy