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Rockwell Kent

Rockwell Kent, American painter and illustrator (died 1971)

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Born
June 21, 1882
Died
March 13, 1971
Zodiac sign
Cancer
Birth year
1882

About Rockwell Kent

Rockwell Kent was an American painter, printmaker, illustrator, writer, sailor, adventurer and voyager. Kent's early paintings of Mount Monadnock and New Hampshire were first shown at the Society of American Artists in New York in 1904, when Dublin Pond was purchased by Smith College. Wilderness (1920), the first of Kent's several adventure memoirs, is an edited and illustrated compilation of his letters home. As the pen-and-ink draftsman "Hogarth Jr.," Kent created dozens of whimsical and smartly irreverent drawings published by Vanity Fair, New York Tribune, Harper's Weekly, and the original Life.

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Rockwell Kent timeline

  1. Kent's early paintings of Mount Monadnock and New Hampshire were first shown at the Society of American Artists in New York in 1904, when Dublin Pond was purchased by Smith College.
  2. Wilderness (1920), the first of Kent's several adventure memoirs, is an edited and illustrated compilation of his letters home.

The world when Rockwell Kent was born

Rockwell Kent was born in 1882. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Headlines and milestones

  • Top headlineChinese Exclusion Act signed
  • Technology milestoneFirst hydroelectric power plant (Appleton, WI)
  • World population~1.42B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderChester A. Arthur
  • U.S. population51.9M

1882 versus 2026

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Measure18822026
Population51.9M341 million

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