The End
1927
Medium
wood engraving on maple on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 12.3 × 17.8 cm (4 13/16 × 7 in.) plate: 14.4 × 19.5 cm (5 11/16 × 7 11/16 in.) sheet: 19.7 × 25.2 cm (7 3/4 × 9 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.5156
About the Artist
Rockwell Kent
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...