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Rockwell Kent  American  1882 -1971
Born: Tarrytown Heights, New York, United States 
Studied: Shinnecock Summer School 1897 - 1900
New York School of Art 1903 - 1904
Columbia University 
Instructors: William Merritt Chase 
Robert Henri 
Kenneth Hayes Miller 
Abbott Handerson Thayer 
Examples of Work: Art Institute of Chicago 
British Museum, London 
Brooklyn Museum of Art 
Cleveland Museum of Art 
Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
Victoria and Albert Museum, London 
Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC 
Specialty: Painter
Illustrator
Printmaker
Style/School: Landscape
Subjects Known For: Nature
Memberships: National Academy of Design g. ANA 1948; NA Elect 1966
National Institute of Arts and Letters 
Academy of Fine Arts of the U.S.S.R. 
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Rockwell Kent, born in 1882, studied at the School of Architecture at Columbia, with William Chase at his Shinnecock School from 1897-1900 and later the New York School of Art with Robert Henri from 1903-4. Kent reflected his ... (More)

According to scholar Constance Martin, "Kent's place belongs within America's stream of individualists, Thomas Eakins, Albert Ryder, and Winslow Homer." Kent was one of the most highly-recognized painters of his time and fol... (More)

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