Still the Breath Divine...

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Still the Breath Divine...

1920

Rockwell Kent (American, 1882–1971)

Each year Kent designed a holiday card to send to close friends and family. This drawing for his 1920 Christmas card, depicting a young man setting aside the weapons of war, embodies the artist’s renewed optimism in the wake of World War I. The two lines of text below the image, taken from a poem by William Blake, appear a number of times on Kent’s Christmas cards.

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Object Details

Title:

Still the Breath Divine...
Design for a Holiday Card

Date:

1920

Artist:

Rockwell Kent (American, 1882–1971)

Medium:

Brush and pen and black ink over traces of graphite, with white opaque watercolor corrections, on cream wove paper (holiday card)

Dimensions:

Image: 7 3/4 x 5 1/8 inches (19.7 x 13 cm) Sheet: 8 1/8 x 5 3/8 inches (20.6 x 13.7 cm)

Classification:

Drawings

Credit Line:

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

Accession Number:

1971-2-261

Geography:

Made in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, North and Central America

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