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Rockwell KentTWELVE PRINTS BY CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN ARTISTS1919
1919
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Kent, Rockwell, et al.
TWELVE PRINTS BY CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN ARTISTS.
Edited by Carl Zigrosser (1891-1975) and designed by Bruce Rogers (1870-1957) and printed by Edwin Rudge on watermaked Japan paper.
Published by E. Weyhe, NY, 1919.
Edition of 115 copies, of which 15 were reserved for the artists and collaborators, and 100 were for sale, this being one of the latter.
Folio (19 x 14 inches, 48 x 36 cm.), cloth portfolio with title label,
Title page, two pages of text by Zigrosser, Table of Contents and twelve plates of varying sizes, each signed by the artist.
Erhard Weyhe (1883-1972) established the Weyhe Galley at 794 Lexington Avenue in New York in 1919, with Zigrosser as the Director. In addition to dealing in art, the gallery published prints, singly and in portfolios, usually of the work of emerging American Modernists. This portfolio, dating from the first year of Weyhe Gallery's existence was the first of these publications. Zigrosser engaged Bruce Rogers to design the portfolio, and also personally sought out the artists, visited their studios and selected the works to be included in "Twelve Prints."
Blue Bird was Rockwell Kent's first published print (Burne-Jones 1)
The Copyist at the Metropolitan (Morse 148) was being worked on when Zigrosser visited, and its inclusion in the portfolio preceded Sloan's own edition.
The full list of artists and the titles and media of their works is as follows:
Earl Horter - The Dark Tower, etching
Rockwell Kent - Blue-bird, wood engraving
William Auerbach-Levy - Tony, etching
Kenneth Hayes Miller - The Bather, drypoint
Jerome Myers - Springtime, drypoint
Walter Pach - Brooklyn Bridge, etching
Boardman Robinson - Russia, 1915, lithograph
Rudolph Ruzicka - East River, Evening, wood engraving
John Sloan - The Copyist at the Metropolitan, etching
Maurice Sterne - Dancing Figure, lithograph
Albert Sterner - Earth, lithograph
Mahonri Young - Navaho Woman and Pony, drypoint
The prints all in excellent condition except for creasing and associated nicks at the extreme sheet edges; the slipcase in very good condition except for the loss of the string ties and some wear to the inner sides of the flap folds.
The "Twelve Prints" portfolio is an important document in the history of American printmaking. Complete sets are now rare; none has come to auction in more than ten years. OCLC locates 12 copies.
All of the images are present but only ten can be shown here; the others are available on request.
- Creator:Rockwell Kent (1882-1971, American)
- Creation Year:1919
- Dimensions:Height: 7.88 in (20 cm)Width: 6.3 in (16 cm)Depth: 0.4 in (1 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Portland, ME
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Rockwell Kent
Rockwell Kent, (1882-1971) was born in Plattsburgh, New York). As a painterand printmaker his work was captured scenes of nature and adventure with a sense of drama that made him one of the most popular American artists of the first half of the 20th century. Kent studied architecture at Columbia University but turned to painting and was a pupil of William M. Chase, Robert Henri, and Abbott Thayer. Best known as an artist and illustrator he worked as an architectural draftsman, as a lobsterman and carpenter on the coast of Maine, and as a ship’s carpenter. He explored the waters about Tierra del Fuego in a small boat and lived in Newfoundland, Alaska, and Greenland, drawing heavily upon these experiences for his paintings and travel books. Kent’s human figures, which appear sparingly in his work, often signify mythic themes, such as heroism, loneliness, and individualism.
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