Blue Bird
Rockwell Kent
1919
Medium
woodcut
Dimensions
sheet: 33.7 × 45.7 cm (13 1/4 × 18 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams
Accession Number
2008.115.5164.2
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Rockwell Kent · 1882–1971
Rockwell Kent (1882–1971) was an American painter, printmaker, illustrator, and writer who combined a vigorous, heroic style with an adventurous life spent in some of the most remote landscapes on earth. Born in Tarrytown Heights, New York, he studied architecture at Columbia University and painting under William Merritt Chase, Robert Henri, and Abbott Handerson Thayer. Kent's artistic vision was...