Alaska

Arts of the Americas

1919–27

Rockwell Kent
American, 1882–1971

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Rockwell Kent
Title: Alaska
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: c. 1919–1927
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed and dated l.r.: "Rockwell Kent/Alaska 1919-27"
Dimensions: 71.2 × 86.4 cm (28 × 34 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Madame Felipe Espil
Reference Number: 1927.997

Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of the Fortieth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1927), n.p., cat. 110.
“Accessions,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 22, no. 3 (Mar. 1928): 40 (ill.).
Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, Rockwell Kent, exh. cat. (New York: Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, 1937), cat. 9.
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 251.
Art in Embassies, exh. cat. (Washington, DC: Art in Embassies, 2020).

Art Institute of Chicago, Fortieth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, Oct. 27–Dec. 14, 1927, cat. 110.
Rockford Illinois Art Association, June 30–Aug. 8, 1936.
Muskegon Museum of Art, Nov. 1–Dec. 8, 1936.
Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, Rockwell Kent, Jan. 6–Feb. 3, 1937, cat. 9.
Wisconsin, Appleton, Lawrence College, Sept. 22–Oct. 5, 1937.
Champaign–Urbana, University of Illinois, Dec. 3–29, 1939.
Brussels, United States Embassy, Whitlock Hall, Art in Embassies Exhibition, May 15, 2019–Dec. 13, 2020, no cat. no.

The artist, 1919/27. Madame Felipe Espil (then Mrs. John Borden), by 1927; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1927.

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