Provenance
The artist
Collection of Kathleen Kent Finney, artist’s first daughter, from above
Patrick Finney, artist’s grandson, from above
Questroyal Fine Art, New York, New York
Alston Antiques, New Haven, Connecticut
Exhibited
Abante Fine Art, Portland, Oregon, The Art of Rockwell Kent 1882–1971: An Exhibition of Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, and Prints from the Estate of His Daughter Kathleen Kent Finney, February 4–April 28, 1999.
Architectural Digest Greenroom at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards, Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center, Los Angeles, February 27, 2011
Literature
Fridolf Johnson, Rockwell Kent, An Anthology of His Works (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982), 40, 280.
Scott R. Ferris, Rockwell Kent and Ellen Pearce. Rockwell Kent’s Forgotten Landscapes (Camden, Maine: Down East Books, 1998), 80.
Related Works
Alaska, 1919-27, oil on canvas, 28 × 34 inches, signed and dated: Rockwell Kent/Alaska 1919-27, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Moonlight – Maritime Alps, oil on canvas, 28 x 34 1/8 inches, The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
Note
In June 1925, Rockwell Kent traveled to southern France, where he spent the summer painting in Bonson, a village in the Maritime Alps.[1] Kent described the village as “perched on the very edge and summit of a cliff,” overlooking “gently sloping, fertile hills terraced for grapes and olive trees,” and praised it as “no lovelier spot in all the world.”[2]
[1] Johnson, Rockwell Kent, An Anthology of His Works, 40.
[2] Rockwell Kent, It’s Me O Lord: The Autobiography of Rockwell Kent (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1955), 403.
