id:edanmdm-siris_arc_211757 url:edanmdm:siris_arc_211757 hash:472add36c03220d27a935460aa884b54908ead22 type:edanmdm title:Rockwell Kent papers, [circa 1840]-1993, bulk 1935-1961 status:0 content: freetext: date: label:Date content:1840 label:Date content:1993 label:Date content:circa 1840-1993 label:Date content:bulk 1935-1961 label:Date content:20th century name: label:Creator content:Kent, Rockwell 1882-1971 label:Subject content:Cleland, T. M (Thomas Maitland) 1880-1964 label:Subject content:Chamberlain, J. E label:Subject content:Freuchen, Peter 1886-1957 label:Subject content:Hartley, Marsden 1877-1943 label:Subject content:Hays, Lee 1914-1981 label:Subject content:Jones, Dan Burne label:Subject content:Keller, Charles 1914-2006 label:Subject content:Miller, Kenneth Hayes 1876-1952 label:Subject content:Reeves, Ruth 1892-1966 label:Subject content:Ruggles, Carl 1876-1971 label:Subject content:Stefansson, Vilhjalmur 1879-1962 label:Subject content:Untermeyer, Louis 1885-1977 label:Subject content:Zigrosser, Carl 1891- label:Subject content:Robeson, Paul 1898-1976 label:Subject content:Rasmussen, Knud 1879-1933 label:Subject content:Phillips, Duncan 1886-1966 label:Subject content:Pach, Walter 1883-1958 label:Subject content:Chase, William Merritt 1849-1916 label:Subject content:Daniel, Charles 1878-1971 label:Subject content:Seeger, Pete 1919-2014 label:Subject content:Davies, Arthur B (Arthur Bowen) 1862-1928 label:Subject content:Gottlieb, Harry 1895- label:Subject content:Gellert, Hugo 1892-1985 label:Subject content:Henri, Robert 1865-1929 label:Subject content:DuBois, W.E.B (William Edward Burghardt) 1868-1963 label:Subject content:Roosevelt, Franklin D (Franklin Delano) 1882-1945 label:Subject content:Wildenstein, Felix 1883-1952 label:Subject content:Boyesen, Bayard label:Subject content:Nearing, Scott 1883-1983 label:Subject content:Nearing, Helen label:Subject content:Fitzgerald, James 1899-1971 label:Subject content:Artists' Union (New York, N.Y.) label:Subject content:Federal Art Project label:Subject content:Macbeth Gallery label:Subject content:Federal Writers' Project label:Subject content:United Office and Professional Workers of America label:Subject content:Artists League of America label:Subject content:Citizens' Committee for Government Arts Projects label:Subject content:National Farmers' Union (U.S.) label:Subject content:Farmers Union of the New York Milk Shed label:Subject content:National Maritime Union of America label:Subject content:United Scenic Artists label:Subject content:United American Artists label:Subject content:International Workers Order label:Subject content:American Artists' Congress notes: label:Notes content:The microfilm of this collection was digitized in 2008 and is available via the Archives of American Art's website. Researchers should note that the legibility of some materials is poor due to the microfilm quality. label:Notes content:Funding for the processing, microfilming, and publication of the finding aid was provided by The Henry Luce Foundation. label:Notes content:In 2008, the microfilm was digitized with funding provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. label:Notes content:Additional Rockwell Kent papers, also located at: Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. label:Notes content:Additional and possibly duplicate Rockwell Kent material located at Plattsburgh State University of New York art museum. Researchers are advised to check with Plattsburgh for before publishing Kent material found in the Archives of American Art. label:Notes content:Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) was a painter, printmaker, illustrator, designer, and commercial artist. Kent also pursued careers as as a writer, professional lecturer, and dairy farmer. He travelled extensively, and was a political activist who supported the causes of organized labor, civil liberties, civil rights, anti-Fascism, and peace and friendship with the Soviet Union. label:Notes content:Finding aid available. label:Notes content:Donated 1969 and 1971 by Mr. and Mrs. Rockwell Kent, and in 1996 by Shirley (Sally) Kent Gorton. Funding for the processing, microfilming, and publication of the finding aid was provided by The Henry Luce Foundation. Additional photos, art works and writings were donated 2001 by the Shirley Gorton Johnstone estate. label:Addl. KW Subjects content:Labor unions label:Occupation content:Painters New York (State) label:Occupation content:Designers New York (State) label:Occupation content:Illustrators New York (State) label:Occupation content:Authors New York (State) label:Summary content:The Rockwell Kent papers measure 89.8 linear feet and date from circa 1840 to 1993 with the bulk of the collection dating from 1935 to 1961. The collection provides comprehensive coverage of Kent's career as a painter, illustrator, designer, writer, lecturer, traveler, political activist, and dairy farmer. label:Summary content:Circumstances surrounding the acquisition of the papers are highlighted in an article by Garnett McCoy ("The Rockwell Kent Papers," in the Archives of American Art Journal, 12, no. 1 [January 1972]: 1-9), recommended reading for researchers interested in the collection. The collection is remarkably complete, for in the mid 1920s Kent began keeping carbon copies of all outgoing letters, eventually employing a secretary (who became his third wife and continued her office duties for the remainder of Kent's life). label:Summary content:Alphabetical Files contain Kent's personal and professional correspondence, along with business records of the dairy farm and associated enterprises; also included are printed matter on a wide variety of topics and promotional literature relating to organizations and causes of interest to him. Voluminous correspondence with his three wives, five children, and other relatives, as well as with literally hundreds of friends, both lifelong and of brief duration, illuminates Kent's private life and contributes to understanding of his complex character. Among the many correspondents of note are: his art teachers William Merritt Chase, Robert Henri, and Kenneth Hayes Miller; fellow artists Tom Cleland, Arthur B. Davies, James Fitzgerald, Hugo Gellert, Harry Gottleib, Marsden Hartley, Charles Keller, and Ruth Reeves; collectors Duncan Phillips and Dan Burne Jones; critics J. E. Chamberlain and Walter Pach; and dealers Charles Daniel, Felix Wildenstein, and Macbeth Galleries. Kent corresponded with such diverse people as Arctic explorers Peter Freuchen, Knud Rasmussen, and Vilhjalmar Steffanson; composer Carl Ruggles and songwriters Lee Hays and Pete Seeger; civil rights pioneers Paul Robeson and Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois; writers Bayard Boyesen, Scott and Helen Nearing, and Louis Untermeyer; and art historian and print curator Carl Zigrosser. label:Summary content:Kent's interest and involvement in the labor movement are reflected in correspondence with officials and members of a wide variety and large number of unions and related organizations, among them: the Farmers' Educational and Cooperative Union of America, Farmers' Union of the New York Milk Shed, International Workers Order, National Maritime Union, and United Office and Professional Workers of America. Of special interest is his participation, often in leadership roles, in various attempts to organize artists. Files on the American Artists' Congress, Artists League of America, The Artists Union, United American Artists, and United Scenic Artists contain particularly valuable material on the movement. label:Summary content:A supporter of New Deal efforts to aid artists, Kent was actively interested in the various programs and often was critical of their limitations; he advocated continuing federal aid to artists after the Depression abated. Iincluded within the collection is correspondence with the Federal Arts Project, Federal Fine Arts Project, Federal Writers' Project, and the War Department, as well as correspondence with the Citizens' Committee for Government Art Projects and President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the subject. label:Summary content:Kent's professional correspondence documents exhibitions, sales, consignments, and reproduction of prints and paintings. He kept meticulous records of his advertising commissions and illustration work. Detailed correspondence with publishers and printers indicates Kent's involvement in the technical aspects of production and provides a good overview of the publishing industry during the mid-twentieth century. label:Summary content:Business records of Asgaard Farm include records of the dairy and transfer of ownership to its employees, tax and employee information, and documents concerning several related business ventures such as distributor ships for grain, feed, and farm implements. label:Summary content:Writings consists of notes, drafts, and completed manuscripts by Rockwell Kent, mainly articles, statements, speeches, poems, introductions, and reviews. The Kent Collection given to Friendship House, Moscow, in 1960, was augmented later by a set of his publications and the illustrated manuscripts of many of his monographs. Also included are a small number of manuscripts by other authors. label:Summary content:Artwork consists mainly of drawings and sketches by Kent; also included are works on paper by other artists, many of whom are unidentified, and by children. label:Summary content:Printed Matter consists of clippings, exhibition catalogs and announcements, brochures, broadsides, programs, and newsletters. These include items by and about Kent and his family, as well as articles written and/or illustrated by him, and reviews of his books. There is also material on a variety of subjects and causes of interest to him. Additional printed matter is included among the alphabetical files, mainly as attachments to correspondence. label:Summary content:Miscellaneous includes biographical material, legal documents, and memorabilia. Artifacts received with papers include textile samples, a silk scarf, dinnerware, ice bucket, and rubber stamp, all featuring designs by Rockwell Kent. Also with this series are a variety of documents including a phrenological analysis of an ancestor, lists of supplies for expeditions, a hand-drawn map of an unidentified place, and technical notes regarding art materials and techniques. label:Summary content:Photographs includes photographs of Kent, his family and friends, travel, and art number that over one thousand. Also included here are several albums of family and travel photographs. label:Cite as content:Rockwell Kent papers, circa 1840-1993, bulk 1935-1961. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution label:Repository Loc. content:Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Washington, DC 20560 label:Repository Loc. content:(5 bxs photographs #86-90) VC21B2-VC21B3 label:Repository Loc. content:(83 bxs, artifacts, bxs #83-84, and box #92) V13A1-V13C7 (fldr Photos-Puerto Rico in bx 88 and Vermont Marble Workers Clippings in bx 71, of. Shapiro) label:Repository Loc. content:(1 hol, piece #75) V27E2 label:Repository Loc. content:(1 ov, piece #81) dr243 label:Repository Loc. content:(2 sols, pieces #85 & 91) V27D4 label:Repository Loc. content:(1 VHS video, 2 copies, and 1 digi beta re: Greenland; transferred from motion pic. film) Video label:Repository Loc. content:(1 reel, motion picture film, 35mm) Udvar-Hazy Cold Storage label:Repository Loc. content:(1 rd, proofs of Kent's catalogue raisonne) VC18A2 label:Repository Loc. content:(1 hol, #93) V4A4 label:Repository Loc. content:(1 sol, #94) V4A4 place: label:Place content:United States topic: label:Topic content:Art and war label:Topic content:Commercial art label:Topic content:Dairy farms label:Topic content:Federal aid to the arts label:Topic content:Illustration of books label:Topic content:Mural painting and decoration label:Topic content:Art, Modern--Political aspects label:Topic content:Politics and culture label:Topic content:World War, 1939-1945--Art and the war label:Topic content:World War, 1939-1945--Civilian relief setName: label:See more items in content:Rockwell Kent papers, [circa 1840]-1993, bulk 1935-1961 label:See more items in content:Rockwell Kent papers [circa 1840]-1993 [Kent, Rockwell 1882-1971] dataSource: label:Data Source content:Archives of American Art identifier: label:Local number content:aaa 5153-5256 and 5740-5741 label:Local number content:AAA kentrock objectType: label:Type content:Drawings label:Type content:Collection descriptions objectRights: label:Restrictions & Rights content:Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Contact Reference Services for more information label:Restrictions & Rights content:Plattsburgh State University of New York Art Museum may hold copyright to portions of the collection physicalDescription: label:Physical description content:89.8 linear feet label:Physical description content:1 rd indexedStructured: date: 1920s 1910s 1940s 1930s 1900s 1880s 1990s 1890s 1840s 1960s 1850s 1950s 1860s 1980s 1870s 1970s name: type:personal_main content:Kent, Rockwell type:personal_subj content:Cleland, T. M type:personal_subj content:Chamberlain, J. 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