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Sledging (Greenland Travelers)

1933

Rockwell Kent

(American, 1882–1971)
Culture
America
Medium
wood engraving
Measurements
Sheet: 31.1 x 23.5 cm (12 1/4 x 9 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift from Gwen Fate and Kevin Henegar 2023.32
Edition
edition 125
Copyright
Copyright
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Location
Not on view
Print
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Did You Know?

Rockwell Kent and two shipmates sailed to Greenland from North America on a 33-foot wooden cutter, called Direction, in 1929.

Description

Rockwell Kent was an adventurer as well as a transcendentalist and mystic in the tradition of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. He traveled to many wildernesses, finding inspiration in their stark beauty and austerity. The artist spent time in Greenland in the 1930s, making a number of works there depicting Indigenous people, such as this image of two individuals and a traditional sled, likely of the type pulled by dogs. His stark, realist style implies the bitter cold and yet sublimity of nature.

Sledging (Greenland Travelers)

1933

Rockwell Kent

(American, 1882–1971)
America

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