LISTED AMER ROCKWELL KENT HAND SIGNED ORIG WOODCUT SHAKESPEARE CYMBELINE FRAMED

Description: Listed American Artist, Illustrator, Writer and Political Activist Rockwell Kent* Pencil Signed, on lower right, this Mysterious, Heroic Figural. It is an Original Woodcut on paper and elegantly, museum framed. The figures are from Kent's Illustrations for The Complete Works Of Shakespeare, 1936. This is a scene from one of Shakespeare's last plays - Cymbeline - a tragedy/comedy in the mold of Romeo & Juliette. Set in Roman/Celtic Britain, this scene shows us Imogen, a princess, lying on a cave floor, being discovered by Belarius, an unjustly banished nobleman, in Roman soldiers garb. He comes upon her and gasps, "By Jupiter, an Angel!" The image is sharp and quite striking. The paper is not mounted as we can see a little waviness in the piece. It is Beautifully and Elegantly 'museum' framed with Acid Free mats and possibly UV reducing glass (no fading, with constant coloration throughout the paper and the mat.1 1/4" Wide Flat Black (w/ hints of Red around outer edges) wood moulding with Antiqued Gold linear detailing on the inner lip, an off-white Acid Free mat and glass are included in this listing.Image opening measures 7 X 9 1/2 and is in Very Good to Excellent conditionOutside measure of the frame' is 16 3/4 X 19 3/4 and is in Very Good condition.Please carefully examine all images for condition.Shipping fee includes Delivery Insurance. Apologies for glare or reflection in images due to photographing under glass. Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) Kent was born in Tarrytown, New York, and was interested in art from a young age. These ambitions were encouraged by his aunt Jo Holgate, an accomplished ceramicist. Jo came to live with the family after Kent’s father passed away in 1887 and took him to Europe as a teenager. Kent attended the Horace Mann School in New York City, where he excelled at mechanical drawing. His family’s financial circumstances prevented him from pursuing career in the fine arts, however, and after graduating from Horace Mann in 1900, Kent decided to study architecture at Columbia University. Before matriculating at Columbia, Kent spent the first of three consecutive summers studying painting at William Merritt Chase’s art school in Shinnecock Hills, Long Island. At the end of Kent’s third summer at Shinnecock, Chase offered him a full scholarship to the New York School of Art, where he was a teacher. Kent began taking night classes at the art school in addition to his architecture studies, but soon left Columbia to study painting full time. In addition to Chase, Kent took classes with Robert Henri (1865-1929) and Kenneth Hayes Miller (1876-1952). His classmates included the artists George Bellows (1882-1925) and Edward Hopper (1882-1967). Kent spent the summer of 1903 assisting the painter Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849-1921) at his studio in Dublin, New Hampshire—a position he secured through the recommendation of his Aunt Jo. Thayer gave the young artist time to pursue his own work, and that summer Kent painted several views of the New Hampshire landscape, including Mount Monadnock. In 1905 Kent moved from New York to Monhegan Island in Maine, home to a summer art colony, where he continued to find inspiration in the natural world. Kent soon found success exhibiting and selling his paintings in New York and in 1907 was given his first solo show at Claussen Galleries. For the next several decades, Kent lived a peripatetic lifestyle, settling in several locations in Connecticut, Maine, and New York. During this time he took a number of extended voyages to remote, often ice-filled, corners of the globe, including Newfoundland, Alaska, Tierra del Fuego, and Greenland, to which he made three separate trips. For Kent, exploration and artistic production were twinned endeavors, and his travels to these rugged, rural locales provided inspiration for both his visual art and his writings. He developed a stark, realist landscape style in his paintings and drawings that revealed both nature’s harshness and its sublimity. Kent’s human figures, which appear sparingly in his work, often signify mythic themes, such as heroism, loneliness, and individualism. Around 1920 Kent took up wood engraving and quickly established himself as one of the preeminent graphic artists of his time. His striking illustrations for two editions of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick—simultaneously precise and abstract images that drew on his architect’s eye for spatial relations and his years of maritime adventures—proved extremely popular and remain some of his best-known works. Throughout the 1920's and 1930's, Kent produced a range of print media, including advertisements, bookplates, and Christmas cards. In 1937 the artist was commissioned by the Federal Public Works Administration to paint two murals for the New Post Office in Washington, DC. By the onset of World War II, Kent had largely disengaged from the New York art world and instead focused his energies on a number of progressive political causes, including labor rights and preventing the spread of fascism in Europe. Though he never joined the communist party, his support of leftist causes made him a target of suspicion by the State Department, which revoked his passport after his first visit to Moscow in 1950 (though Kent successfully sued to have it reinstated). As his artistic reputation declined at home and his work fell out of favor, Kent found new popularity in the Soviet Union, where his works were exhibited frequently in the 1950's. In 1960 he donated 80 paintings and 800 prints and drawings to the people of the Soviet Union, and in 1967 he was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize. Kent died of a heart attack in 1971 and was buried on the grounds of Asgard, his farm in New York’s Adirondack Mountains. Combined Shipping Discount Policy: 20% off all combinable items. Check out our other art work auctions. You never know the gems you will find! No International Shipping. Continental Shipping Only (Contiguous U.S. 48 States). Alaska & Hawaii may increase shipping charge. All returns must be pre-approved. Full refund if item is not as described. Apologies but NYS residents must pay 8.875% NYS sales tax. Payment expected 3 days after end of auction or the item will be re-listed. We reserve the right to remove glass/frame from the Artwork to Protect Artwork from damage and/or decrease shipping charges. Each and Every day we strive for 5 ☆'s. Please contact us if you feel we have not achieved the full 5 ☆'s as 110% Customer Satisfaction is our mission!

Price: 599.99 USD

Location: Forest Hills, New York

End Time: 2025-01-02T18:55:19.000Z

Shipping Cost: 29 USD