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Martin Greene collection of materials related to Rockwell Kent, 1917-2009

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Greene, Martin
Title
Martin Greene collection of materials related to Rockwell Kent
Dates
1917-2009 (inclusive)
Quantity
3 boxes (3.08 cubic feet)
Collection Number
6552 (Accession No. 6552-001)
Summary
Items with Rockwell Kent designs, magazines, dealer catalogs, exhibition guides, and ephemera about or related to Rockwell Kent collected by a Pacific Northwest-based collector
Repository
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu
Access Restrictions

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Languages
English
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Biographical Note

Martin L. Greene, MD, is a retired Clinical Professor of Medicine on the faculty of the University of Washington School of Medicine. He is also a book collector with an interest in polar exploration, Pacific voyages, and Russian America.

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Historical Note

Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) was a painter, graphic artist and writer from New York State. He traveled widely and illustrated his trips to Greenland and Alaska, giving him his initial fame. Kent painted, designed posters, and published six books recounting his travels and family history. Politically active throughout his life, he received the Lenin Peace Prize, the Soviet-bloc counterpart to the Nobel Prize for Peace, in 1967. Major museums collected his paintings and his prints were reproduced widely during his lifetime.

Source: Smithsonian American Art Museum, https://americanart.si.edu/artist/rockwell-kent-2601

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Content Description

Reproduced prints, items with designs by Kent including bookplates and advertisements, materials advertising events, items, and services related to Kent, books and pamphlets illustrated by Kent, magazines with articles about or related to Kent, auction and sale catalogs, and museum exhibit guides collected by Martin Greene.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Status of creator's copyrights is unknown; restrictions may exist on copying, quotation, or publication. Users are responsible for researching copyright status before use.

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Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

Donated by Martin Greene, November 2023

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Detailed Description of the Collection

 

  • Description: Artwork: Reproductions of artwork by Kent, prints

    Includes print portfolios

    Dates: 1971, undated
    Container: Box/Folder 1/1
  • Description: Artwork: Reproduced prints by Kent

    Proof Set of the Eight Full-Page Illustrations for "N by E"

    Container: Box/Folder 3/6
  • Description: Artwork: Reproductions of artwork by Kent, miscellaneous

    Items using Kent images without other reference to Kent

    Container: Box/Folder 1/9
  • Description: Artwork: Copies of Christmas-themed art by Kent

    Includes postage stamps

    Dates: 1938-1971
    Container: Box/Folder 1/2
  • Description: Artwork: Postcards printed in the Soviet Union

    Postcard images are reproductions of artwork by Kent

    Dates: 1965, undated
    Container: Box/Folder 1/3
  • Description: Artwork: Prospectus

    Contains Casanova Aventuros (1925), City Child, The Jewel, A Rosary (1995), and Rockwellkentiana (1933)

    Dates: 1925-1995
    Container: Box/Folder 1/4
  • Description: Artwork: Prospectus

    Cover for "Rockwell Kent, An Anthology of his Works" edited by Fridolf Johnson

    Dates: 1981
    Container: Box/Folder 3/1
  • Description: Artwork: Designed by Kent

    Contains United American Artists Honors at Testimonial Rockwell Kent flyer (1941), Southern Tenant Farmers Union stamp and card, proof set of the eight full-page illustrations in "N by E", North Country Wallace for President Committee letterhead, American Export Lines menus, and a blank menu

    Dates: 1938-2000
    Container: Box/Folder 1/5
  • Description: Artwork: Designed by Kent

    Victory calendar

    Dates: 1942
    Container: Box/Folder 3/2
  • Description: Artwork: Designed by Kent, Bookplates
    Container: Box/Folder 1/6
  • Description: Artwork: Designed by Kent, Advertisements
    Dates: approximately 1930s
    Container: Box/Folder 1/7
  • Description: Advertisements: Kent-related Events, Services, or Items

    Includes flyer from Columbia Lecture Bureau advertising Kent's services as a speaker (undated), advertising flyer for Books by Charles M. Russell and Rockwell Kent (undated), Beowulf lithographs exhibition announcement (1932), Harbor Gallery oils showing invitation (1966, photocopy), invitation to hear Kent speak at 24th anniversary of US-USSR relations dinner (approximately 1971), Kent Centennial pin (1982), "This Is My Own" film ad (1982), and other exhibit and goods advertisements

    Dates: 1932-2003 (bulk 1982-2003)
    Container: Box/Folder 1/8
  • Description: Advertisements: using Kent's artwork

    Includes Saturday Evening Post (1943), art museum announcements, and Lakeside Press promotional brochure for Moby Dick (1930)

    Dates: 1930-1992
    Container: Box/Folder 1/9
  • Description: Advertisements: using Kent's artwork

    Bags with Doubleday Book Shops logo originally designed by Kent

    Dates: 1986
    Container: Box/Folder 3/3
  • Description: Books and Pamphlets illustrated by Kent

    "How I Make a Woodcut" by Kent (1934), "Of Men and Mountains" by Kent (1959), "Know and Defend America" by Kent (approximately 1945), "You, Who Love Life" by Sobell (1956), American Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers 1976 year book, "Week Ends with Tom Cleland" by Eckman (1971), "The Ballad of Yukon Jake" by Paramore (undated), and the dust jacket for "The Mountains Wait" by Kent

    Dates: 1934-1971
    Container: Box/Folder 1/10
  • Description: Periodicals: Articles by Kent

    "What is an American?", "There Is No Such Thing as Commercial Art", and "The Artist Tells the Whole Story"

    Dates: 1936-1937
    Container: Box/Folder 1/11
  • Description: Periodicals: Articles about Kent

    Magazines which contain an article about Kent: Art Digest, Direction, New Masses, and Wings

    Dates: 1929-1946
    Container: Box/Folder 1/12
  • Description: Periodicals: Articles about Kent

    Magazines which contain an article about Kent: Print Review, American Artist, Archives of American Art Journal, Adirondack Life, and American Book Collector

    Dates: 1964-1981
    Container: Box/Folder 1/13
  • Description: Periodicals: Articles about Kent

    Magazines which contain an article about Kent: Archives of American Art Journal, SUNY Plattsburgh Museum News, Library Columns, Down East, Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, Printing History, and Swarthmore College Bulletin. Also includes clippings of articles.

    Dates: 1983-2009
    Container: Box/Folder 1/14
  • Description: Periodicals: Articles about Kent

    Chronogram

    Dates: 2009
    Container: Box/Folder 3/7
  • Description: Periodicals: with Kent Artwork

    Atlantic Monthly, Survey Graphic, and Art and Artists of Today

    Dates: 1930-1948
    Container: Box/Folder 1/15
  • Description: Periodicals: with Kent Artwork

    The American Home

    Dates: 1936
    Container: Box/Folder 3/4
  • Description: Periodicals: Reproductions of Artwork by Kent

    Antiques (2005), Book News (1992), Print Survey (1947), Prints [Aline Kistler] (1938), The London Studio (1937), St. Nicholas for Boys and Girls (1933), Bulletin of the Worcester Art Museum (1929), The American Magazine of Art (1928, 1925), The Arts (1925), and The Dial (1924)

    Dates: 1924-2005
    Container: Box/Folder 1/16
  • Description: Periodicals: Reproductions of Artwork by Kent

    Playboy No. 6 A Portfolio of Art and Satire

    Dates: 1919
    Container: Box/Folder 3/5
  • Description: Periodicals: The Modern School

    Contain Kent cover illustrations and illustrations in the articles

    Dates: 1917-1920
    Container: Box/Folder 2/1
  • Description: Periodicals: Scribner Magazine

    Contain Kent cover illustrations

    Dates: 1928-1929
    Container: Box/Folder 2/2
  • Description: Periodicals: Reference to Kent

    Yankee, cover illustration, "Kent House" by Jamie Wyeth

    Dates: 1985
    Container: Box/Folder 2/3
  • Description: Catalogs and Collection Guides

    "Alaska Drawings by Rockwell Kent" (1919), "American Artists Group" (1936-1937), Bowdoin College Art Museum "The Rockwell Kent Collection" (1972), B. F. Feinberg Library "The Rockwell Kent Gallery and Collection" (1978), Harco Gallery (1986, 1987, 1989)

    Dates: 1919-1989
    Container: Box/Folder 2/4
  • Description: Catalogs: Auction and Sale, Prints

    The University Prints (1936), Associated American Artists (1987), Abigail Furey Fine Prints and Drawings (2000), The Old Print Shop (2002)

    Dates: 1936, 1987-2002
    Container: Box/Folder 2/5
  • Description: Catalogs: Auction and Sale

    Bookshops, galleries, auction houses, presses, and other.

    Dates: 1929-1995
    Container: Box/Folder 2/6
  • Description: Guides: Exhibitions in New York State

    Includes exhibits which feature Kent's art or which are about Kent's art

    Dates: 1939-2000
    Container: Box/Folder 2/7
  • Description: Guides: Exhibitions outside of New York State

    Includes exhibits which feature Kent's art or which are about Kent's art in Maine, Virginia, New Jersey, Illinois, and other States

    Dates: 1930-1998
    Container: Box/Folder 2/8
  • Description: Photographs

    AP photograph of a protest in which Kent took part, the Kents in Moscow as a greeting card, Sally and Rockwell Kent in Russia, photo of Kent and Paul Robeson

    Dates: 1938, 1962, 1967
    Container: Box/Folder 2/9
  • Description: Clippings

    Clippings with mentions of Kent

    Dates: 1979-2000
    Container: Box/Folder 3/8
  • Description: Miscellaneous

    Additional materials which mention Kent or relate to his career. Includes signed letters, copy of the Kent and Briehl v Dulles Supreme Court Case, clippings and photocopies of book chapters or articles about Kent.

    Dates: approximately 1933-2003
    Container: Box/Folder 2/10