ROCKWELL KENT (1882 1971) Newfoundland Burin Harbor

Sale 2696 - Lot 47

Price Realized: $ 1,375

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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500

ROCKWELL KENT (1882 - 1971)
Newfoundland: Burin Harbor.

Pencil on tan wove paper, 1910. 127x216 mm; 5x8½ inches.

Provenance
Estate of the artist, with the ink stamp lower right.
Zwicker's Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia (label).
Collection of Gerald Ferguson, Halifax, Nova Scotia, by 1987.
Thence by descent to current owner, New York.

Exhibited
"Rockwell Kent: The Newfoundland Work," Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, February 5 - March 15, 1987, number 19 (label).

Published
J.M. Wien, Vital Passage: The Newfoundland Epic of Rockwell Kent, with a Catalogue Raisonné of the Newfoundland Works, Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's, Newfoundland, 2014, page 41, number 30.

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Additional Details

Rockwell Kent visited Newfoundland twice, in 1910 and in 1914-15. The present drawing is of Burin Harbor, off the coast of the Burin Peninsula, where Kent intended to found an art school.