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Maine Coast

1907

Rockwell Kent

(American, 1882–1971)
Culture
America
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
Framed: 104.5 x 130.2 x 6.5 cm (41 1/8 x 51 1/4 x 2 9/16 in.); Unframed: 86.4 x 111.7 cm (34 x 44 in.)
Credit Line
Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 1922.1132
Public Domain
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Location
208 American Gilded Age and Realism
Print
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Did You Know?

Kent loved to paint landscapes in cold, remote areas, including Maine, Alaska, Newfoundland, and Greenland.

Description

Located off the coast of Maine, Monhegan Island has long drawn artists attracted to its rugged headlands, brooding forests, and dramatic ocean vistas. Unlike most colleagues who visited during summer, Kent built a home and lived there year-round, working as a well digger, lobsterman, and carpenter from 1906–8. This boldly rendered winter scene was painted from his studio window.
Oil painting of a winter landscape with a snowy hill on the left arcing down to reveal deep blue water with a sailboat on the horizon on the right. Spiky pine trees are created with sweeping strokes and thin, vertical streaks convey brown grass. Above roll deep blue tinged clouds, below a plane of white snow is broken only by twiggy structures with red dots like berries.

Maine Coast

1907

Rockwell Kent

(American, 1882–1971)
America

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