Rockwell Kent N by E DJ 1935 pen & ink illustrations Woodblock 1st/7th Greenland

Rockwell Kent N by E DJ 1935 pen & ink illustrations Woodblock 1st/7th Greenland (image 3/[null, null, null, null])

Rockwell Kent N by E DJ 1935 pen & ink illustrations Woodblock 1st/7th Greenland (image 4/[null, null, null, null])

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This auction is for the following original, vintage book. Please forgive the shadows at the bottom of some of the images and the poor image quality - if you need more images just let me know. Overseas shipping keeps going up so please check shipping costs if you are outside the US. If you have any questions just let me know - thank you!Book Title - N by E Book Author - Rockwell Kent Book Publisher / Year - Blue Ribbon Books Inc., Cornwall Press / Cornwall, New York - stated 7th printing February 1935 Book Condition - Dust Jacket has a lot of edge chipping and edge rubbing - DJ has plenty of age and wear and is Good to Good plus / please examine images - a few chips were found inside front to save but the chipping is severe I think. Boards are very clean and bright. Top edge dusty - sharp titles on spine - book is very, very slightly cocked. Light pencil old dealer note to upper left corner of ffep. First few pages have a little rough side edges but only a few and I have them pictured. Pages are clean and binding is solid - fantastic B&W woodcut illustrations. Book looks pretty sharp with tanned pages and I believe is easily Very Good maybe Very Good plus.notes - N by E -- Memoir of the summer 1929 voyage to (and shipwreck on the rocks of) Greenland (1930) [filled with the artist's pen/brush and ink drawings as well as several wood engravings];Rockwell Kent (June 21, 1882 - March 13, 1971) was an American painter, printmaker, illustrator, writer, sailor and adventurer.When Kent died of a heart attack in 1971, The New York Times described him as "... a thoughtful, troublesome, profoundly independent, odd and kind man who made an imperishable contribution to the art of bookmaking in the United States." Richer, more accurate accounts of the scope of the artist's influential career as a painter and writer have since superseded this cursory summing-up of an American life. Retrospectives of the artist's paintings and drawings have been mounted, most recently by The Rooms in St. John's, Newfoundland, where the exhibition Pointed North: Rockwell Kent in Newfoundland and Labrador was curated by Caroline Stone in the summer of 2014. Other recent exhibitions include the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery and Owen D. Young Library at St. Lawrence University (Canton, New York) in the autumn of 2012; the Farnsworth Art Museum (Rockland, Maine) during the spring through autumn of 2012; the Bennington Museum in Vermont during the summer of 2012; and the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the spring through summer of 2012. An exhibition marking the centennial of Kent's time in Winona, Minnesota, took place there in 2013. Among the many notes of increasing awareness of Kent's contributions to American culture is the reproduction of one of Kent's pen-and-ink drawings from Moby Dick on a U.S. postage stamp, part of the 2001 commemorative panel celebrating such American illustrators as Maxfield Parrish, Frederic Remington, and Norman Rockwell.Noted American and Canadian writers in recent years have found much gold to mine in Kent's improbable personal and public life. The year he spent in Newfoundland, for example, is fictionally (and very loosely) recalled by Canadian writer Michael Winter in The Big Why, his 2004 Winterset Award-winning novel. And certain qualities of the protagonist of Russell Banks's 2008 novel The Reserve are inspired by aspects of Kent's ... read more

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