Alaskan Landscape

Alaskan Landscape

1919
Oil on canvas
28 1/6 x 34 3/8 in. (71.3 x 87.4 cm)
Inscribed lower left: Rockwell Kent. Alaska. 1919.

Alternate titles:
Alaska

Provenance:
Artist
Egmont Arens
Estate of Egmont Arens
(Barridoff Galleries, 1979)
(Richard Larcada/One Art Service, 1981)

Collection:
Alaska State Museum, Juneau

Notes:
Titled “Alaska” in the 1925 Kent exhibition at the Art Alliance in Philadelphia (#18), and lent by Egmont Arens. The same title was used in the 1979 Barridoff Galleries catalogue (lot #133). “Alaskan Landscape” appears on a Larcada label on the verso, in a May 5, 1982 letter from Larcada to John Granger, of Alaska, and in several Alaska State Museum documents.

Regarding provenance: Barridoff included Egmont Arens in the provenance. Larcada mentions, in a June 14, 1982 letter to Kenneth De Roux, then director of the Alaska State Museum, that Kent sold the painting “to a private New England collector [presumably, Arens] and subsequently to us.”

The painting was originally mounted on board. According to the Western Paintings Conservation’s report, the canvas was removed from the board after the museum acquired the piece in 1982.

The painting is depicted in one of many photographs that illustrate Egmont and Mathilde Areas’ 1962 “Joy at Christmas” letter.

This painting may have originally been titled “Northwest Day” (see the Knoedler catalogue, #4).