Painter, printmaker and illustrator
Rockwell Kent
American painter and printmaker whose stark ink drawings gave Moby-Dick a new look.
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1882-1971Born Tarrytown, New York, USA
Rockwell Kent was an American painter, printmaker, illustrator and writer. He studied with William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri, and first made his name with paintings of Monhegan Island in Maine. Drawn to remote places, he lived and worked in Newfoundland, Alaska, Tierra del Fuego and Greenland, and wrote illustrated books about his travels. In 1926 the Chicago printers R. R. Donnelley asked him to illustrate a classic, and Kent proposed Moby-Dick. Their three-volume Lakeside Press edition of 1930, and the Random House trade edition that followed, carried his black-and-white pen and brush drawings of sailors, sea, sky and whale. Picturepops cards use his drawings from the 1930 Random House Moby-Dick.