Rockwell Kent
Rockwell Kent 1882-1971, an American artist was born in
Tarrytown, New York, was well educated in
art. He did his first significant work at
Monhegan Island, Maine. Later he traveled widely, doing other landscape work. He also did a great deal of work illustrating working people, serving as an illustrator for The Masses, a popular left-wing magazine. He was a victim of
McCarthyism during the
1950s. As a devotee of realistic art, he had also fallen from popular favor.
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