Adam Style

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Adam Style

1914

Rockwell Kent (American, 1882–1971)

This illustration appeared in The Brickbuilder, a monthly architectural magazine, as part of an article entitled “The Nomenclature of the Styles: a humorous theory illustrating in caricature familiar schools and phases of architecture.” Here, the artist satirizes the eighteenth-century British neoclassical mode of architecture and decorative arts—named after the Adam brothers of Scotland—by wittily suggesting its origins in the Garden of Eden.

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Object Details

Title:

Adam Style
Proof of an illustration for "The Brickbuilder" (Volume 24, no. 1, Jan 1915)

Date:

1914

Artist:

Rockwell Kent (American, 1882–1971)

Medium:

Photomechanical metal relief print (proof)

Dimensions:

Image: 6 15/16 x 4 1/4 inches (17.6 x 10.8 cm) Sheet: 7 1/8 x 4 3/4 inches (18.1 x 12.1 cm)

Classification:

Prints

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Lola Downin Peck Fund from the Carl and Laura Zigrosser Collection, 1971

Accession Number:

1971-2-138

Geography:

Made in United States, North and Central America or made in Newfoundland, Canada, North and Central America

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