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Feb 19, 2009
Mountain Climber
Mountain Climber
1932–1933
Rockwell Kent
(American, 1882–1971)
Graphite
Support: Cream(3) tracing paper
Sheet: 21 x 15.8 cm (8 1/4 x 6 1/4 in.); Image: 20.3 x 15.2 cm (8 x 6 in.)
Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1933.143
© Courtesy of Plattsburgh State Art Museum/Estate of Sally Kent Gordon.
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Kent was a wanderer and adventurer, who traveled to Alaska, Patagonia, and Greenland. Much of his work, like this drawing, celebrates heroic, manly figures. Interestingly, Kent did not use professional models but drew from his own nude body with the help of mirrors.
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