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: 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

Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, “Accessions” 22, 3 (March 1928): 40 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 251.

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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