Rockwell Kent's distant shores: The story of an exhibition. (Info North).

From: Arctic | Date: March 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

ROCKWELL KENT'S (1882-1971) title for his 617-page autobiography, It's Me, O Lord (1955) is from a spiritual:

It's me, it's me, it's me, O Lord,

Standin' in the need of prayer

It suggests a sense of humility rarely if ever evident in Kent's typically egocentric conduct and grandiloquent published prose.

What is certain is that he was an artist of extraordinary drive, talent, and versatility, who embraced life with exuberance. Painter, printmaker, illustrator, and architect; a designer of books, ceramics, and textiles, and a prolific writer, he was complex and ...

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