id: 92936 accession number: 1922.1132 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1922.1132 updated: 2025-05-07 18:31:06.590000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1907 creation date earliest: 1907 creation date latest: 1907 current location: 208 American Gilded Age and Realism creditline: Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection copyright: --- culture: America technique: oil on canvas department: American Painting and Sculpture collection: American - Painting type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Rockwell Kent (American, 1882–1971) - artist --- 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: signed lower left: Rockwell Kent / 1907. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Second Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting opening date: 1922-06-08T00:00:00 Second Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 8-July 10, 1922). 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Rockwell Kent: A Retrospective Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Lithographs, and Woodcuts. Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, Syracuse, NY (January 6–February 7, 1937)', 'opening_date': '1937-01-06T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Made in the U.S.A. Hackley Art Gallery, Muskegen, MI (–November 29, 1950)', 'opening_date': '1950-11-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Picture of the Month. Thiel College, Greenville, PA (April 1–30, 1960)', 'opening_date': '1960-04-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Maine: 100 Artists of the 20th Century. Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME(June 25–September 30, 1964) illus. p. 3, listed p. 34.', 'opening_date': '1964-06-25T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Rockwell Kent: The Early Years. Walker Art Museum, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME (August 15–October 15, 1969)', 'opening_date': '1969-08-15T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'The American Landscape. Mansfield, OH, The Mansfield Art Center, (8 March-5 April 1981)', '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).', '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'} --- PROVENANCE (Mrs. Albert (Marie) Sterner [1880-1953], New York, NY sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) date: -1922 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1922- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Brunswick, ME, Walker Art Museum, Bowdoin College, Rockwell Kent: The Early Years (15 August-15 October 1969) page number: cat. no. 4, illus. url: 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 url: 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 url: "Cleveland Museum Acquires Typical Pictures by Bellows and Kent." American Art News 20:37 (24 June 1922). page number: Reproduced: p. 6 url: "Painter Exchanges Maine Pines for Scenes in South America." The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH), Sept. 2, 1922. page number: Reproduced: p. 48 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of an Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 until Today at the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: [Printed by the Artcraft Printing Co.], 1937. page number: Mentioned: p. 30, no. 112 url: Rockwell Kent: A Retrospective Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Lithographs, and Woodcuts. Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, Syracuse, NY (January 6–February 7, 1937) page number: cat. no. 5, not illus. url: Maine: 100 Artists of the 20th Century. Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME (June 25–September 30, 1964) page number: illus. p. 3, listed p. 34. url: Young, Mahonri Sharp. American Realists, Homer to Hopper. New York, NY: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1977. page number: Mentioned: p. 182; Reproduced: p. 183 url: West, Richard V. "Rockwell Kent Reconsidered." American Art Review. 4:3 (December, 1977). page number: Mentioned: p. 84-93, 130-136 url: The American Landscape. Mansfield, OH, The Mansfield Art Center, (8 March-5 April 1981) page number: cat. no. 41, not illus url: 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 url: 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. url: 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 url: Antiques. vol. 143 (April, 1993). page number: Mentioned: p. 503 url: 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 url: 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 url: Ferris, Scott R. "The Bestowal." In Rockwell Kent's Forgotten Landscapes. Camden, ME: Down East Books, 1998. page number: Mentioned: pp. 22, 76-78. url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1922.1132/1922.1132_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1922.1132/1922.1132_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1922.1132/1922.1132_full.tif