Frozen Falls, Alaska

Frozen Falls, Alaska

Oil on canvas mounted on fiberboard
34 x 28 in. (86.5 x 71.2 cm)

Alternate title:
Ice Curtains
c. 1919-1952 


Inscribed lower right:
Rockwell Kent


Provenance:
Artist
J.J. Ryan /Oak Ridge Collection
Descended through the family

Collection:
Private Collection

Notes:
“Frozen Falls (Alaska)” is the title found on the Peter A. Juley & Son photograph of this painting. The composition depicted in the Juley photograph matches the underpainting seen in the current rendition of the work.

Alternate title:
Original title, before the painting was reworked, was “Ice Curtains.”

Original signature was, “Rockwell Kent, Alaska, 1919.”

The underpainting of this work, depicting ice “curtains” on both sides of the composition, corresponds with the title “Ice Curtains,” listed as #7 in the 1920 Knoedler catalogue. The thematically similar compositions, AK1-15 and AK1-16, also show evidence of earlier compositions having been painted over.