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.
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
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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Donated by Martin Greene, November 2023
Includes print portfolios
Proof Set of the Eight Full-Page Illustrations for "N by E"
Items using Kent images without other reference to Kent
Includes postage stamps
Postcard images are reproductions of artwork by Kent
Contains Casanova Aventuros (1925), City Child, The Jewel, A Rosary (1995), and Rockwellkentiana (1933)
Cover for "Rockwell Kent, An Anthology of his Works" edited by Fridolf Johnson
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
Victory calendar
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
Includes Saturday Evening Post (1943), art museum announcements, and Lakeside Press promotional brochure for Moby Dick (1930)
Bags with Doubleday Book Shops logo originally designed 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
"What is an American?", "There Is No Such Thing as Commercial Art", and "The Artist Tells the Whole Story"
Magazines which contain an article about Kent: Art Digest, Direction, New Masses, and Wings
Magazines which contain an article about Kent: Print Review, American Artist, Archives of American Art Journal, Adirondack Life, and American Book Collector
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.
Chronogram
Atlantic Monthly, Survey Graphic, and Art and Artists of Today
The American Home
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)
Playboy No. 6 A Portfolio of Art and Satire
Contain Kent cover illustrations and illustrations in the articles
Contain Kent cover illustrations
Yankee, cover illustration, "Kent House" by Jamie Wyeth
"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)
The University Prints (1936), Associated American Artists (1987), Abigail Furey Fine Prints and Drawings (2000), The Old Print Shop (2002)
Bookshops, galleries, auction houses, presses, and other.
Includes exhibits which feature Kent's art or which are about Kent's art
Includes exhibits which feature Kent's art or which are about Kent's art in Maine, Virginia, New Jersey, Illinois, and other States
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
Clippings with mentions of Kent
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.