id: 92936
accession number: 1922.1132
share license status: CC0
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1922.1132
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Maine Coast, 1907. Rockwell Kent (American, 1882–1971). Oil on canvas; framed: 104.5 x 130.2 x 6.5 cm (41 1/8 x 51 1/4 x 2 9/16 in.); unframed: 86.4 x 111.7 cm (34 x 44 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 1922.1132
title: Maine Coast
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creation date: 1907
creation date earliest: 1907
creation date latest: 1907
current location: 208 American Gilded Age and Realism
creditline: Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection
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culture: America, 20th century
technique: oil on canvas
department: American Painting and Sculpture
collection: American - Painting
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Rockwell Kent (American, 1882–1971) - artist
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measurements: Framed: 104.5 x 130.2 x 6.5 cm (41 1/8 x 51 1/4 x 2 9/16 in.); Unframed: 86.4 x 111.7 cm (34 x 44 in.)
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inscription: signed lower left: Rockwell Kent / 1907.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today
opening date: 1937-06-23T04:00:00
Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-October 4, 1937).
title: The Silver Jubilee Exhibition
opening date: 1941-06-23T04:00:00
The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).
title: 35th Anniversary Exhibition
opening date: 1951-06-20T04:00:00
35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951).
title: Western Landscape Painting and Drawing
opening date: 1954-10-29T04:00:00
Western Landscape Painting and Drawing. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 29, 1954-January 6, 1955).
title: Reckoning with Winslow Homer: His Late Works and Their Influence
opening date: 1990-09-19T04:00:00
Reckoning with Winslow Homer: His Late Works and Their Influence. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 19-November 25, 1990); Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (December 16, 1990-February 10, 1991); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (March 16-May 12, 1991).
title: Blanketed in Snow: American Winter Scenes
opening date: 1997-12-06T00:00:00
Blanketed in Snow: American Winter Scenes. Norton Museum of Art (December 6, 1997-February 22, 1998); Newark Museum (March 7-May 31, 1998); Columbus Museum of Art (July 10-September 13, 1998).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Second Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting (8 June-10 July 1922)', 'opening_date': '1922-06-08T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Syracuse, NY, Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, Rockwell Kent: A Retrospective Loan Exhibtion of Paintings, Lithographs, and Woodcuts (6 January-3 February 1937), cat. no. 5, not illus.', 'opening_date': '1937-01-06T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, An Exhibtion of American Painting from 1860 Until Today at The Cleveland Museum of Art (23 June-4 October 1937), cat. no. 112, not illus.', 'opening_date': '1937-06-23T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Muskegen, MI, Hackley Art Gallery, Made in the U.S.A. (?November-29 November 1950)', 'opening_date': '1950-11-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Greenville, PA, Thiel College, Picture of the Month (1 April-30 April 1960)', 'opening_date': '1960-04-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Waterville, ME, Colby College Museum of Art, Maine: 100 Artists of the 20th Century (25 June-30 September 1964), illus. p. 3, listed p. 34.', 'opening_date': '1964-06-25T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Brunswick, ME, Walker Art Museum, Bowdoin College, Rockwell Kent: The Early Years (15 August-15 October 1969), cat. no. 4, illus.', 'opening_date': '1969-08-15T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Mansfield, OH, The Mansfield Art Center, The American Landscape (8 March-5 April 1981), cat. no. 41, not illus.', 'opening_date': '1981-03-08T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, "An Enkindled Eye:" The Paintings of Rockwell Kent: A Retrospective Exhibition (29 June-1 September 1985); traveled to Columbus, Columbus Museum of Art (12 October-13 November 1985); to Portland, ME, Portland Museum of Art (21 January-2 March 1986); to Syracuse, NY, Everson Museum of Art (11 April-18 May 1986), pp. 15-25, cat. no. 10, illus. p. 37.', 'opening_date': '1985-06-29T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Reckoning with Winslow Homer: His Late Paintings and Their Influence (19 September-18 November 1990); traveled to Columbus, Columbus Museum of Art (16 December 1990-10 February 1991); to Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art (16 March-12 May 1991), pp. 101-106, 182-183, cat. no. 74, illus. p. 102.', 'opening_date': '1990-09-19T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Impressionism and Realism: The Painting of Modern Life, 1885-1915 (2 May-24 July 1994); traveled to Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum (22 August-30 October 1994); to Denver, Denver Art Museum (28 November 1994-5 February 1995); to Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (6 March-14 May 1995), pp. 85-87, 351-352, illus. p. 85, fig. 73.', 'opening_date': '1994-05-02T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Richmond, VA, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, America Around 1900: Impressionism, Realism, and Modern Life (12 June-17 September 1995 )', 'opening_date': '1995-06-12T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'West Palm Beach, FL: Norton Museum of Art; Newark Museum of Art, NJ; Columbus Museum of Art, OH; "Blanketed in Snow: American Winter Scenes" (12/6/97 - 9/13/98)', 'opening_date': '1997-12-06T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
(Mrs. Albert (Marie) Sterner [1880-1953], New York, NY sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
date: -1922
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1922-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Milliken, William M. "The Second Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 9:6 (June 1922): 95-98.
page number: Mentioned: p. 97
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Glasier, Jessie C. "Museum Gets Prize-Winning Canvases: Bellows Subject, Kent Landscape Are Acquisitions." The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH), June 18, 1922.
page number: Mentioned: p. 3
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"Cleveland Museum Acquires Typical Pictures by Bellows and Kent." American Art News 20:37 (24 June 1922).
page number: Reproduced: p. 6
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"Painter Exchanges Maine Pines for Scenes in South America." The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH), Sept. 2, 1922.
page number: Reproduced: p. 48
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Milliken, William M. "Two Examples of Modern Painting: The Maine Coast, by Rockwell Kent." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 9:10 (December, 1922). pp. 171-175.
page number: Mentioned: p. 171-172
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925.
page number: Reproduced: p. 36
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook_80839/page/n38
The American Magazine of Art. 16 (July, 1925).
page number: Reproduced: p. 347
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Isham, Samuel, and Royal Cortissoz. The History of American Painting. New York, NY: Macmillan Company, 1927.
page number: Mentioned: p. 563-564, 588-589; Reproduced: pl. 136
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928.
page number: Reproduced: p. 44
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1928/page/n48
Neuhaus, Eugen. The History and Ideals of American Art. Stanford University, CA: Stanford University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1931.
page number: Mentioned: p. 358-359
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Pollak, Frances M., and Greta A. Cornell. "Rockwell Kent-Painter and Graver." The Index of Twentieth Century Artists. New York, NY: Research Institute of the College Art Association, 1934.
page number: Mentioned: p. 97, 104-110
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Young, Mahonri Sharp. American Realists, Homer to Hopper. New York, NY: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1977.
page number: Mentioned: p. 182; Reproduced: p. 183
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West, Richard V. "Rockwell Kent Reconsidered." American Art Review. 4:3 (December, 1977).
page number: Mentioned: p. 84-93, 130-136
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Johnson, Fridolf. Rockwell Kent: An Anthology of His Works. New York, NY: Knopf, 1982.
page number: Mentioned: p. 33-34, 107-115; Reproduced: p. 244
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Clark, Jeff. "The Return of Rockwell Kent: A Portland Retrospective Recalls an Adventurous and Controversial Life." Down East, March 1986.
page number: Mentioned: p. 24-28; Reproduced: pl. 26.
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Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993.
page number: Reproduced: p. 121
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Antiques. vol. 143 (April, 1993).
page number: Mentioned: p. 503
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Weinberg, H. Barbara, Doreen Bolger, and David Park Curry. American Impressionism and Realism: The Painting of Modern Life, 1885-1915. New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, distributed by H.N. Abrams, 1994.
page number: Reproduced: fig. 73; Mentioned: p. 86
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Cummer Gallery of Art, Jacksonville. "Exhibition Reviews: Fort Worth: American Impressionsim and Realism." The Burlington Magazine. 136:1100 (November, 1994). pp. 786-787.
page number: Mentioned: p. 787; Reproduced: p. 787
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Ferris, Scott R. "The Bestowal." In Rockwell Kent's Forgotten Landscapes. Camden, ME: Down East Books, 1998.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 22, 76-78.
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