Wake Up, America!
1945
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View on museum website →Medium
lithograph in black on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 40.48 × 28.26 cm (15 15/16 × 11 1/8 in.) sheet: 33.34 × 23.65 cm (13 1/8 × 9 5/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection
Accession Number
2015.19.957
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...