Student Artwork Guide
Copyright This work is still under copyright. Rockwell Kent died in 1971; copyright lasts 70 years after the artist’s death, so it remains in force until 2041. The image is shown here for classroom reference; rights remain with the rights holder.
In context
Sunset — Rockwell Kent
Row above: the years. Row below: how old the artist was at the start and at the end of each span — 0 at birth, 89 at death.
Shaded: the lifetime of Rockwell Kent (1882–1971) every dated painting, decade by decade
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Measured from the image
Main colour
Gray #7b6d5f
Catalogued palette
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The ten leading countries
Find the three darkest countries on the map. Is the museum that keeps this painting in any of them? Write down one reason people far away might look at it.
Together these works take 99.3% of all the attention this artist's paintings received over the last twelve months. The catalogue holds 190 works by this artist, of which 20 were looked at at least once. This painting ranks 18 of them, with 2.9% of that attention. The same counts, month by month
Bars measure attention, not quality. Pick the work at the top and this one: name one thing that might make a painting famous beyond how well it is painted.
Artist and museum
Born in Tarrytown, United States of America
rockwell kent, an american painter, printmaker, illustrator, writer, sailor, and adventurer, was born on june 21, 1882, in tarrytown, new york. of english descent, kent spent his early life in and around new york city, attending the horace mann school. he studied composition and design with arthur wesley dow at the art students league in 1900 and painting with william merritt chase from 1900 to 1902.
kent's early paintings of mount monadnock and new hampshire, first shown at the society of american artists in new york in 1904, marked the beginning of his reputation as an early american modernist. his series of monhegan island paintings (1905-1910), exhibited at clausen galleries in new york in 1907, can be seen in museums across the country, including the metropolitan museum of art, seattle art museum, and new britain museum of american art.
key exhibitions:
exhibition of independent artists (1910)
an independent exhibition of the paintings and drawings of twelve men (1911), also known as "the twelve" or "kent's tent"
influences:**
transcendentalism, inspired by the works of thoreau and emerson
the austerity and stark beauty of wilderness
notable works:**
wilderness (1920), an adventure memoir and compilation of letters
series of land and seascapes from forbidding locales, conveying the symbolist spirit
kent's later life was marked by his incorporation as "rockwell kent, inc." in 1919, supporting his new vermont homestead. he continued to paint until his death on march 13, 1971.
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Look closely
Sunset — Rockwell Kent
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The AR Preview page of "Sunset" by Rockwell Kent uses augmented reality to show the artwork in your own space, on a compatible device.
gray (#7b6d5f) is the leading color of "Sunset" by Rockwell Kent.
"Sunset" is brilliant overall, and its luminance is gentle luminance.