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Birth
1882 (Tarrytown Heights, New York)
Death
1971 (near Plattsburgh, New York)
Lived/Active
New York
Often Known For
genre, illustrations, graphics, mural painting
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Notable Alaska
San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
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| Growing up in a genteel family in New York City, Rockwell Kent was a member of the rugged realist school of landscape painters as well as a popular illustrator and printmaker. His 1930 illustrations for Moby Dick are among his most lasting achievements. He was the first American artist to have work exhibited in the Soviet Union, a reflection of his Communist Party sympathies, which earned him the Lenin Peace Prize in 1967. This espousal of radical politics caused his car (showing 500 of 23527 characters). |
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