However, not all of the attention he received was positive. Kent's paintings and illustrations of Alaska, Tierra del Fuego, Greenland, and other remote locations he had visited won his art great popularity. Many of Kent's posters used sophisticated symbolism to convey political messages or support social causes. They were reproduced from pen, brush, and ink drawings, but he soon began working with woodcuts. His earliest poster designs date to 1917–18, focusing on the choices and sacrifices that must be made during war.
Kent worked as an architect for a little over a decade, then moved to Maine and supported himself as a manual laborer while painting.
While there, he enrolled in night and summer classes at several art schools, studying with distinguished artists such as William Merritt Chase, Robert Henri, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and Abbott Handerson Thayer.
Together 5 volumes, in generally fine condition.Born in Tarrytown, New York, Rockwell Kent attended the Columbia University School of Architecture. Original vellum, uncut, several leaves unopened dust jacket board slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 241 of 950 copies signed by Kent with his thumb print. LIMITED EDITION, number 1472 of 1850 copies signed by Kent. Original pictorial silk, beige watered-silk linings protective dust jacket. Yetter (certificate of ownership laid-in). LIMITED EDITION, number 47 of 750 copies signed by Kent. Original blue cloth, vellum gilt spine labels, top edges gilt, others uncut publisher's board slipcase with pictorial label on cover. Frontispieces and 38 illustrations by Rockwell Kent. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, & Company, 1936. Together 5 volumes, in generally fine condition.
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