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ROCKWELL KENT.
Rocky with toy boat. Pen and ink on paper, mounted to thicker paper. 127x139 mm;
5x5
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inches, image. Unsigned. Evenly sun- and age-toned. Cornered to window matte.
Fox Island,Alaska, circa 1918. Provenance:Acquired from descendant of the artist, Patrick
Finney, to current owner.
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A sweet and fairly detailed drawing of Kent’s 9-year-old son, Rocky, seated, playing with what
appears to be a rough-hewn wooden boat. Kent created many such drawings of Rocky, along with
numerous images of local scenery, and a now famous series of large-scale landscapes in oil during
their father-son sojourn to Fox Island,Alaska during 1918-19.
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Accompanying the lot is a copy of the revised signed, limited edition ofWilderness published by theWard
Ritchie Press which contains previously unpublished passages from Kent’s journal.This is number 272 of
1550 copies signed by Kent and is additionally inscribed and signed by his wife Sally to Kent’s daughter by
his first marriage, Barbara, and her husband Alan (Carter), the founding director of theVermont Symphony
Orchestra. 8vo, silver-lettered blue cloth; slipcase. Los Angeles, 1970.