Lunar Disintegration, From the series End of the World
Rockwell Kent, American, 1882 - 1971
1937
Lithograph on medium weight wove paper
Image: 12 1/16 × 10 1/16 in. (30.6 × 25.6 cm)
Sheet: 16 1/16 × 11 13/16 in. (40.8 × 30 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Mrs. Harvey P. Hood W'18 Fund
2019.81.1
Printer
George C. Miller
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in graphite, lower right below image: Rockwell Kent; inscribed, in graphite, lower right margin: GS K 746; inscribed, in graphite, on reverse, upper right margin: BJ115 Watermark, lower right corner: GCM
Exhibition History
This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World, Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 5–July 22, 2022.
Published References
Dennis, Geoffrey. The End of the World. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1930. “Hadyen Planetarium Shows Four Ways in Which the World May End: Rockwell Kent Portrays Them.” LIFE 3, no. 8 (November 1, 1937): 54–8. Johnson, Fridolf. Rockwell Kent: An Anthology of His Works. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. Johnson, Fridolf, and John H. F. Gorton. The Illustrations of Rockwell Kent: 231 Examples from Books, Magazines and Advertising Art. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1976. Jones, Dan Burne. The Prints of Rockwell Kent: A Catalogue Raisonné, revised by Robert Rightmire. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 2002. McCurdy, Howard E. “The Cold War.” In Space and the American Imagination, Second Edition, 60–92, 333–340. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. Traxel, David. An American Saga: The Life and Times of Rockwell Kent. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1980. Wien, Jake Milgram. Rockwell Kent: The Mythic and the Modern. Manchester and New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with The Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, 2005. Wolff, Justin. “Rockwell Kent and the End of the World.” Lecture presented at the John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, October 22, 2016. https://www.nga.gov/audio-video/wilmerding-symposium/wilmerding-2016-wolff.html Zigrosser, Carl. “Rockwell Kent.” In The Artist in America: Twenty-Four Close-Ups of Contemporary Printmakers, 45–54. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942.
Provenance
Steven Thomas, Inc., Woodstock, Vermont; sold to present collection, 2019.
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