The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 22, 2023

Mountain Climber

1932–1933

Rockwell Kent

(American, 1882–1971)

America, 20th century

Graphite

Support: Cream(3) tracing paper

Sheet: 21 x 15.8 cm (8 1/4 x 6 1/4 in.); Image: 20.3 x 15.2 cm (8 x 6 in.)

Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1933.143

© Courtesy of Plattsburgh State Art Museum/Estate of Sally Kent Gordon.

Location

not on view

Description

Kent was a wanderer and adventurer, who traveled to Alaska, Patagonia, and Greenland. Much of his work, like this drawing, celebrates heroic, manly figures. Interestingly, Kent did not use professional models but drew from his own nude body with the help of mirrors.

Inscriptions

Inscription

signed, lower right, in graphite: Rockwell Kent

Exhibition history

Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; 4/19/98 - 7/12/98. "American Drawings from the Permanent Collection."

Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-April 28, 1937).

Print Club Publications: Past Fifteen Years. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 9-March 20, 1938).

The Precisionist Aesthetic in American Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 24-April 9, 1989).

American Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 19-July 12, 1998).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1933.143