The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 18, 2025

Mountain Climber

1932–1933

Rockwell Kent

(American, 1882–1971)
America
graphite
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.
Location: Not on view

Description

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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    The Print Club of Cleveland: Publication Prints 1924-1994. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 9-June 26, 1994).
    The Precisionist Aesthetic in American Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 24-April 9, 1989).
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  • {{cite web|title=Mountain Climber|url=false|author=Rockwell Kent|year=1932–1933|access-date=18 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1933.143