Rockwell Kent

Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), an American artist was born in Tarrytown, New York, was well educated in art. He did his first significant work at Monhegan Island, Maine. Later he traveled widely, doing other landscape and seascape work in Newfoundland, Alaska, Tierra del Fuego, and Greenland. He also did a great deal of work illustrating working people, serving as an illustrator for The Masses, a popular left-wing magazine.

List of works written and illustrated by Rockwell Kent

• Voyaging Southwards from the Strait of Magellan - About Kent's travels in Tierra del Fuego.
• - About the year Kent and his young son spent living on Fox Island in Resurrection Bay, Alaska.
• N by E - About Kent's disastrous attempt to sail from New York to Greenland.
• Salamina - About the year Kent spent living and working in Igdlorssuit, Greenland.
• It's Me, O Lord! - Kent's autobiography.
• This is My Own - An autobiographical account of Kent's struggles with the US establishment from the 1930s through to the anti-communist witch-hunts of the 1950s.