Resurrection Bay, Alaska

AK1-30: Resurrection Bay, Alaska

AK1-30: Resurrection Bay, Alaska

Resurrection Bay, Alaska

c. 1965 

Oil on canvas
28 x 44 in. (71 x 111.8 cm)


Inscribed lower right:
Rockwell Kent


Provenance:
Artist
Kent Estate
(Larcada Gallery, 1973)

Collection:
Anchorage Museum (Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Alaska )
Gift of ATZ Travel, ERA Helicopters, Dr. and Mrs. Lloyd Hines, Bruce Kendall, and Alyeska Pipeline Service Company

Notes:
The painting is documented in a Kent, Asgaard studio photograph dated 1966.

This composition is similar to “Killer Whales in Resurrection Bay” (AK1-20. Plattsburgh State Art Museum) with the noticeable exception of the foreground figures.

In a list that the artist prepared for his agent, Larcada Gallery, entitled, “Works by Rockwell Kent (For Sale),” he hand wrote: “(from sketch, 1919) 1965 (28″ x 44″).”