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Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), an American artist was
born in Tarrytown, New York, was well educated in
art. He did his first significant work at
Monhegan, Maine|Monhegan Island, Maine. Later he
traveled widely, doing other landscape and
seascape work in Newfoundland, Alaska, Tierra del
Fuego, and Greenland. He also did a great deal of
work illustrating working people, serving as an
illustrator for The Masses, a popular left-wing
magazine. 

Approached in 1926 by publisher R. R. Donnelley to
produce an illustrated edition of Richard Henry
Dana's Two Years Before the Mast, Kent suggested
Moby Dick instead. Published in 1930, the deluxe
edition sold out immediately; a lower-priced
Random House edition became a Book-of-the-Month
Club selection. A previously obscure book, Moby
Dick was rediscovered by critics in the 1920s. The
success of the Rockwell Kent illustrated edition
was a factor in its becoming the recognized
classic it is today.

Kent was active in left-wing politics. In 1939,
Kent joined the Harlem Lodge of the International
Workers Order (IWO), a pro-Communist fraternal
organization. A lithograph by Kent became the
organization's logo in 1940, and from 1944 to 1953
he served as the organization's President. 

He was a victim of McCarthyism during the 1950s.
As a devotee of realistic art, he had also fallen
from popular favor.

==List of works written and illustrated by
Rockwell Kent==

*Voyaging Southwards from the Strait of Magellan -
About Kent's travels in Tierra del Fuego.
*Wilderness: A Journey of Quiet Adventure in
Alaska - About the year Kent and his young son
spent living on Fox Islands|Fox Island in
Resurrection Bay, Alaska. 
*N by E - About Kent's disastrous attempt to sail
from New York to Greenland. 
*Salamina - About the year Kent spent living and
working in Igdlorssuit, Greenland.
*It's Me, O Lord! - Kent's autobiography.
*This is My Own - An autobiographical account of
Kent's struggles with the US establishment from
the 1930s through to the anti-communist
witch-hunts of the 1950s.

==List of works written by others and illustrated
by Rockwell Kent==

*City Child - poetry by Selma Robinson
*The Mountains Wait - dust jacket only
*Seed - novel by Charles Norris - dust jacket only
*Zest - novel by Charles Norris - dust jacket only
*Candy - novel
*Moby Dick - novel by Herman Melville
*Leaves of Grass - poetry by Walt Whitman
*Erewhon - novel by Samuel Butler
(1835-1902)|Samuel Butler
*Candide - novel by Voltaire
*The Bridge at San Luis Rey - novel by 
*Faust - by Goethe
*Paul Bunyan - novel by Esther Shephard
*Gisli's Saga - Mediaeval Icelandic saga
*Autumn Leaves (Litchfield book)|Autumn Leaves -
social commentary by P W Litchfield
*Canterbury Tales
*The Decameron - novel by Gionvanni Boccaccio
*The Complete Works of Shakespeare

==External links==
* http://www2.plattsburgh.edu/museum/kentkent.htm
Brief online biography