Blogs about: Rockwell Kent

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Are We Having Fun Yet?

N. E. Swinton wrote 4 days ago: I brought my children to a skating rink a few years ago, something I used to do as a kid. My oldest … more →

Tags: North Country, farm, Family, Nature, Education, Culture, Art, Museums, Hiking

Mother's Day

oldprintgallery wrote 1 week ago: Happy Mother’s Day from the Old Print Gallery Mexican Madonna. (Mexican Mother.) By Irwin D. H … more →

Tags: 19th Century Prints, Contemporary, Drawing, early 20th century, Etching 2, Lithograph, Prints, 19th Century, Contemporary Prints

New Additions

oldprintgallery wrote 2 weeks ago: We have a whole handful of new prints in the gallery- by both contemporary and early 20th century ar … more →

Tags: aquatint, Color Linocut, Color Woodcut, Contemporary, early 20th century, Etching 2, Lithograph, Mezzotint, New additions

kayakgreenland1959 wrote 2 weeks ago: SKINNING THE KAYAKS KAYAK HUNTING IN ILLORSUIT GREENLAND 1959 Chapter Three HOW THE KAYAKS ARE BUILT … more →

Tags: Yak 1959 two, Anas acuta, Arctic diet, Glaciers, greenland, Harald I Drever, Icebergs, Igdlorssuit, Illorsuit

kayakgreenland1959 wrote 2 weeks ago: DAILY LIFE IN THE VILLAGE KAYAK HUNTING IN ILLORSUIT GREENLAND 1959 Chapter One: Daily life in the v … more →

Tags: Illo 1959, Anas acuta, Arctic diet, Glaciers, greenland, Harald I Drever, Icebergs, Igdlorssuit, Illorsuit

kayakgreenland1959 wrote 3 weeks ago: BUILDING THE KAYAKS KAYAK HUNTING IN ILLORSUIT GREENLAND 1959 Chapter Three HOW THE KAYAKS ARE BUILT … more →

Tags: Yak 1959 one, Anas acuta, Arctic diet, Glaciers, greenland, Harald I Drever, Icebergs, Igdlorssuit, Illorsuit

The International Workers Order and Bela Lugosi by Sander Feinberg2 comments

Vampire Over London: Bela Lugosi wrote 1 month ago: Bela Lugosi and my grandfather Carl Schwartz (aka Kalman Marki) were close friends in the 1930s and … more →

Tags: Bela Lugosi, Carl Schwartz, Lillian Lugosi, Sander Feinberg, Anton Schlussel, International Worker's Order, Kalman Marki, Louis Weinstock, New York Hungarian Community in the 1930s and 1940s

Journeying to Asgaard... aka feeding the kids

WanderArtist wrote 1 month ago: moonlit sleigh ride by Rockwell Kent In Norse mythology Asgaard was the dwelling place of the gods a … more →

Tags: Wanderings, Local Roaming, Flora and Fauna, Friendship, Photography, Adirondacks, Leisure, Nature, Asgaard

Amazing Rockwell Kent

BirchBark Bookshop wrote 2 months ago: Hi folks!  We have a beautiful book by Rockwell Kent. It ‘s a shipwreck adventure that is fill … more →

Tags: Books, First Editions, Fiction, Shipwreck, woodblock prints, wood block prints, Dry Humor

Who is Rockwell Kent?

Mary Alice Anderson wrote 3 months ago: A year ago I had no idea.   Now I know he a prolific artist, writer, illustrator, adventurer,  progr … more →

Tags: Primary Sources, Local History, Winona

Blue: the meaning of a colour14 comments

artmoscow wrote 3 months ago: Rockwell Kent lived through most of the 20th century. He was one of the very few American artists wh … more →

Tags: Art, Art History, Matisse, Arts, Inspiration, Photography, landscape

Medieval Deco1 comment

bibliostyle wrote 4 months ago: The completion, in 1930, of Rockwell Kent’s illustrations for The Canterbury Tales caused a minor se … more →

Tags: illustrators, Books, Book Collecting, Illustration, Illustrator, Geoffrey Chaucer, Art Deco, Design

Personal Letters From Great Artists to Their Friends and Family1 comment

emilystemple wrote 6 months ago: Here at Flavorpill, we’re great fans of artistic ephemera, endlessly fascinated by everything … more →

Tags: Visual Arts, Buzz, alexander calder, Eugene Delacroix, frida kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe, Gustav Klimt, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso

Post-Stomy Miscellany11 comments

tugster wrote 6 months ago: May 30, 2012 . . . around 1000 hrs.  I’d forgotten taking this foto until a conversation with … more →

Tags: Books, Don Jon Marine, ferry, New York harbor, photos, sixth boro, tugster, Hurricane Sandy, H.M.S. Bounty

Summer Illustration Tour 20121 comment

Joel Kimmel wrote 8 months ago: On the beach in Cape Cod, Massachusetts Now that summer is practically over I thought I’d do a … more →

Tags: letterpress, Sketches, Norman Rockwell, Summer 2012, ICON7, illustration conference, Maxfield Parrish, museum of american illustration, mackinac island

Ten of Our All-Time Favorite Book Covers

Chris Fannon wrote 8 months ago: If you couldn’t tell from the name of our company, we’re a teensy bit book-obsessed at Bookbyte. And … more →

Tags: College Life, Books and Publishing, Cormac Mccarthy, Kazuo Ishiguro, The Road, Book covers, best-of lists, Moby Dick, Company of Liars

Jazz and NOLA artistry

manwithoutqualities wrote 9 months ago: Check out the terrific artistry of Paul Rogers (no, not the PR from a rather successful 70s beat com … more →

Tags: Aesthetics, fats domino, New Orleans, Jazz 2, Paul Rogers, Jackson Square New Orleans, Music, NOLA

The Armenian Clay Garas

Tamar Najarian wrote 10 months ago: The garas, a large clay vessel, was an extremely popular method of storage from the ancient times in … more →

Tags: Armenian Fact of the Day, armenian, Armenia, ancient, American, modern, Clay, Pot, Kitchen

One of America's Best Regional Art Museum - The Farnsworth

sfphotocraft wrote 10 months ago: One of my pet peeve with small, regional museums is how they try to be all things.  Usually they lac … more →

Tags: Travel, Maine, museum, Art Museum, Farnsworth, frank w. benson, Benson, andrew wyeth, Jamie Wyeth


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