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Rockwell Kent (1882 – 1971) - an American painter, printmaker, illustrator, writer, sailor, adventurer and voyager.
He was one of the best-known American artists of the first half of the 20th century.
The artist was noted for his landscapes and seascapes before making his name as an illustrator.
Rockwell Kent was also an architect, lithographer, xylographer, cartoonist, advertising artist, carpenter, dairy farmer, explorer, trade union leader and political controversialist.
People mixed him up with Norman Rockwell so often that it became a running joke between the two men. Kent died in 1971 at the age of 88.
About "Moby Dick":
How did the limited edition printing of "Moby Dick" come about? Publisher R.R. Donnelley approached Kent in 1926 to do a version of "Two Years Before the Mast" and he suggested doing the Herman Melville novel instead. “Kent loved the sea, and the water. He was a master of painting light and was able to capture that, even in his woodcuts,” says Christine von der Linn, specialist at Swann. “Moby Dick was originally slated to be a one-volume book, and it grew to three.”
Rockwell Kent’s "Moby Dick" came out in 1930, during the Great Depression. How well did it sell? "It was so popular, the limited edition of 1,000 sold out,” she says.
It launched Kent’s name, and caused a revival of interest in "Moby Dick". It was so popular that a one-volume trade edition was put out.
What makes Rockwell Kent’s "Moby Dick" so spectacular? “It blows you away with the overall beauty of it,” she says. “As you flip through the pages, you feel it come to life through Kent’s illustrations. That’s the mark of a successful illustrated book–if you can make the words leap off the page and spring to life.”
One of Kent's exemplary pen-and-ink drawings from Moby Dick appears on a U.S. postage stamp issued as part of the 2001 commemorative panel celebrating American Illustration, with other artistic examples by Maxfield Parrish, Frederic Remington, and Norman Rockwell.
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