Blue Bird

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Blue Bird

1919

Rockwell Kent (American, 1882–1971) Printed by Ruzicka and Adams Published by E. Weyhe, Inc., New York

Kent made Blue Bird, his first large wood engraving, in 1919 after his sojourn in Alaska, where he first began to make prints. In the same year, Carl Zigrosser, Kent’s longtime friend and the founding curator of the Museum’s department of prints and drawings, included the image in the limited-edition portfolio Twelve Prints by Contemporary American Artists, giving an immediate boost to the artist’s profile as a printmaker.

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Object Details

Titles:

Blue Bird
From the portfolio Twelve Prints by Contemporary American Artists, with an introduction by Carl Zigrosser (New York, E. Weyhe, 1919)

Date:

1919

Artists:

Rockwell Kent (American, 1882–1971) Printed by Ruzicka and Adams Published by E. Weyhe, Inc., New York

Medium:

Wood engraving

Dimensions:

Image: 6 1/8 x 6 1/8 inches (15.6 x 15.6 cm) Sheet: 7 7/8 x 7 3/16 inches (20 x 18.3 cm)

Classification:

Prints

Credit Line:

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

Accession Number:

1971-2-264

Geography:

Made in United States, North and Central America

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