Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), an energetic and multitalented man, pursued many interests and careers during his very long and active life. At various times he was an architect, draftsman, carpenter, unskilled laborer, painter, illustrator, printmaker, commercial artist, designer, traveler/explorer, writer, professional lecturer, dairy farmer, and political activist.
While studying architecture at Columbia University, Kent enrolled in William Merritt Chase's summer school at Shinnecock Hills, Long Island. He then redirected his career ambitions toward painting and continued to study with Chase in New York. Kent spent a summer working and living with Abbott H. Thayer in Dublin, New Hampshire, and attended the New York School of Art, where Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller were his teachers.
Critically and financially, Kent was a successful artist. He was very well known for his illustration work--particularly limited editions of the classics, bookplates, and Christmas cards. He was a prolific printmaker, and his prints and paintings were acquired by many major museums and private collectors. During the post-World War II era, Kent's political sympathies resulted in the loss of commissions, and his adherence to artistic conservatism and outspoken opposition to modern art led to disfavor within art circles. After many years of declining reputation in this country and unsuccessful attempts to find a home for the Kent Collection, Kent gave his unsold paintings--the majority of his oeuvre--to the Soviet Union, where he continued to be immensely popular.
An avid traveler, Kent was especially fascinated by remote, Arctic lands and often stayed for extended periods of time to paint, write, and become acquainted with the local inhabitants. Between 1918 and 1935, he wrote and illustrated several popular books about his experiences in Alaska, Tierra del Fuego, and Greenland. In the 1930s and 1940s, Kent was much in demand as a lecturer, making several nationwide tours under the management of a professional lecture bureau; he spoke mainly about his travels, but among his standard lectures were some on "art for the people."
In 1927, Kent purchased Asgaard Farm at AuSable Forks, New York, in the Adirondacks, where he lived for the remainder of his life, operating a modern dairy farm on a modest scale for many years.
As a young man, Kent met Rufus Weeks, became committed to social justice, and joined the Socialist Party. Throughout his life, he supported left-wing causes and was a member or officer of many organizations promoting world peace and harmonious relations with the Soviet Union, civil rights, civil liberties, antifascism, and organized labor. Kent was frequently featured as a celebrity sponsor or speaker at fund-raising events for these causes. In 1948, he ran unsuccessfully as the American Labor Party's candidate for Congress. Kent's unpopular political views eventually led to the dissolution of his dairy business, resulted in a summons to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee, and prompted the U.S. State Department to deny him a passport, an action that subsequently was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Kent wrote two autobiographies,
The Rockwell Kent papers measure 88 linear feet and date from circa 1840 to 1993 with the bulk of the collection dating from 1935 to 1961. The collection provides comprehensive coverage of Kent's career as a painter, illustrator, designer, writer, lecturer, traveler, political activist, and dairy farmer.
Circumstances surrounding the acquisition of the papers are highlighted in an article by Garnett McCoy ("The Rockwell Kent Papers," in the Archives of American Art Journal, 12, no. 1 [January 1972]: 1-9), recommended reading for researchers interested in the collection. The collection is remarkably complete, for in the mid 1920s Kent began keeping carbon copies of all outgoing letters, eventually employing a secretary (who became his third wife and continued her office duties for the remainder of Kent's life).
Series 1: Alphabetical Files contain Kent's personal and professional correspondence, along with business records of the dairy farm and associated enterprises; also included are printed matter on a wide variety of topics and promotional literature relating to organizations and causes of interest to him. Voluminous correspondence with his three wives, five children, and other relatives, as well as with literally hundreds of friends, both lifelong and of brief duration, illuminates Kent's private life and contributes to understanding of his complex character. Among the many correspondents of note are: his art teachers William Merritt Chase, Robert Henri, and Kenneth Hayes Miller; fellow artists Tom Cleland, Arthur B. Davies, James Fitzgerald, Hugo Gellert, Harry Gottleib, Marsden Hartley, Charles Keller, and Ruth Reeves; collectors Duncan Phillips and Dan Burne Jones; critics J. E. Chamberlain and Walter Pach; and dealers Charles Daniel, Felix Wildenstein, and Macbeth Galleries. Kent corresponded with such diverse people as Arctic explorers Peter Freuchen, Knud Rasmussen, and Vilhjalmar Steffanson; composer Carl Ruggles and songwriters Lee Hays and Pete Seeger; civil rights pioneers Paul Robeson and Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois; writers Bayard Boyesen, Scott and Helen Nearing, and Louis Untermeyer; and art historian and print curator Carl Zigrosser.
Kent's interest and involvement in the labor movement are reflected in correspondence with officials and members of a wide variety and large number of unions and related organizations, among them: the Farmers' Educational and Cooperative Union of America, Farmers' Union of the New York Milk Shed, International Workers Order, National Maritime Union, and United Office and Professional Workers of America. Of special interest is his participation, often in leadership roles, in various attempts to organize artists. Files on the American Artists' Congress, Artists League of America, The Artists Union, United American Artists, and United Scenic Artists contain particularly valuable material on the movement.
A supporter of New Deal efforts to aid artists, Kent was actively interested in the various programs and often was critical of their limitations; he advocated continuing federal aid to artists after the Depression abated. The Kent papers include correspondence with the Federal Arts Project, Federal Fine Arts Project, Federal Writers Project, and the War Department, as well as correspondence with the Citizens' Committee for Government Art Projects and President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the subject.
Kent's professional correspondence documents exhibitions, sales, consignments, and reproduction of prints and paintings. He kept meticulous records of his advertising commissions and illustration work. Detailed correspondence with publishers and printers indicates Kent's involvement in the technical aspects of production and provides a good overview of the publishing industry during the mid-twentieth century.
Business records of Asgaard Farm include records of the dairy and transfer of ownership to its employees, tax and employee information, and documents concerning several related business ventures such as distributor ships for grain, feed, and farm implements.
Series 2: Writings consists of notes, drafts, and completed manuscripts by Rockwell Kent, mainly articles, statements, speeches, poems, introductions, and reviews. The Kent Collection given to Friendship House, Moscow, in 1960, was augmented later by a set of his publications and the illustrated manuscripts of many of his monographs. Also included are a small number of manuscripts by other authors.
Series 3: Artwork consists mainly of drawings and sketches by Kent; also included are works on paper by other artists, many of whom are unidentified, and by children.
Series 4: Printed Matter consists of clippings, exhibition catalogs and announcements, brochures, broadsides, programs, and newsletters. These include items by and about Kent and his family, as well as articles written and/or illustrated by him, and reviews of his books. There is also material on a variety of subjects and causes of interest to him. Additional printed matter is included among the alphabetical files, mainly as attachments to correspondence.
Series 5: Miscellaneous includes biographical material, legal documents, and memorabilia. Artifacts received with papers include textile samples, a silk scarf, dinnerware, ice bucket, and rubber stamp, all featuring designs by Rockwell Kent. Also with this series are a variety of documents including a phrenological analysis of an ancestor, lists of supplies for expeditions, a hand-drawn map of an unidentified place, and technical notes regarding art materials and techniques.
Series 6: Photographs includes photographs of Kent, his family and friends, travel, and art number that over one thousand. Also included here are several albums of family and travel photographs.
The collection is arranged into six series. Series 1 is arranged alphabetically. The arrangement of the remaining series is explained in each series description. Note that sealed materials that became available in 2000 were microfilmed separately on reels 5740-5741, but have integrated into this finding aid.
In 1969, Rockwell Kent donated his papers to the Archives of American Art; textile samples were received in 1979, and his widow gave additional papers in 1971 and 1996. Letters to Rockwell Kent from wives Frances and Sally, sealed during Sally Kent Gorton's lifetime, became available for research after her death in 2000, and further material was donated to the Archives of American Art in 2001 by the Estate of Sally Kent [Shirley Johnstone] Gorton.
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Rockwell Kent papers, circa 1840-1993, bulk 1935-1961. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
The collection was processed by Catherine Stover and Lisa Lynch in 1998 and microfilmed on reels 5153-5256. Sealed materials that became available in 2000 were microfilmed separately on reels 5740-5741. Funding for the processing, microfilming, and publication of the finding aid was provided by The Henry Luce Foundation. The finding aid was modified during EAD conversion by Stephanie Ashley in 2002. In 2008, the microfilm was digitized with funding provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art.
Papers suffered significant water damage after being rescued from the fire that destroyed the Kent home in 1969. A small percentage could not be salvaged, and a few items (particularly letters written in fountain pen) are faded or smeared to the point of illegibility.
This series contains Kent's personal and professional correspondence, along with business records of the dairy farm and associated enterprises; also included are printed matter on a wide variety of topics and promotional literature relating to organizations and causes of interest to him. Voluminous correspondence with his three wives, five children, and other relatives, as well as with literally hundreds of friends--both lifelong and of brief duration--illuminates Kent's private life and contributes to understanding of his complex character. Among the many correspondents of note are: his art teachers William Merritt Chase, Robert Henri, and Kenneth Hayes Miller; fellow artists Tom Cleland, Arthur B. Davies, James Fitzgerald, Hugo Gellert, Harry Gottleib, Marsden Hartley, Charles Keller, and Ruth Reeves; collectors Duncan Phillips and Dan Burne Jones; critics J. E. Chamberlain and Walter Pach; and dealers Charles Daniel, Felix Wildenstein, and Macbeth Galleries. Kent corresponded with such diverse people as Arctic explorers Peter Freuchen, Knud Rasmussen, and Vilhjalmar Steffanson; composer Carl Ruggles and songwriters Lee Hays and Pete Seeger; civil rights pioneers Paul Robeson and Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois; writers Bayard Boyesen, Scott and Helen Nearing, and Louis Untermeyer; and art historian and print curator Carl Zigrosser.
Kent's interest and involvement in the labor movement are reflected in correspondence with officials and members of a wide variety and large number of unions and related organizations, among them: the Farmers' Educational and Cooperative Union of America, Farmers' Union of the New York Milk Shed, International Workers Order, National Maritime Union, and United Office and Professional Workers of America. Of special interest is his participation, often in leadership roles, in various attempts to organize artists. Files on the American Artists' Congress, Artists League of America, The Artists Union, United American Artists, and United Scenic Artists contain particularly valuable material on the movement.
A supporter of New Deal efforts to aid artists, Kent was actively interested in the various programs and often was critical of their limitations; he advocated continuing federal aid to artists after the Depression abated. The Kent Papers include correspondence with the Federal Arts Project, Federal Fine Arts Project, Federal Writers' Project, and the War Department, as well as correspondence with the Citizens' Committee for Government Art Projects and President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the subject.
Kent's professional correspondence documents exhibitions, sales, consignments, and reproduction of prints and paintings. He kept meticulous records of his advertising commissions and illustration work. Detailed correspondence with publishers and printers indicates Kent's involvement in the technical aspects of production and provides a good overview of the publishing industry during the mid-twentieth century.
Business records of Asgaard Farm include records of the dairy and transfer of ownership to its employees, tax and employee information, and documents concerning several related business ventures such as distributorships for grain, feed, and farm implements.
Letters to Rockwell Kent from wives Frances and Sally (Shirley Johnstone), sealed during Sally's lifetime, became available for research in 2000 and were microfilmed later on reels 5740-5741.
File titles are, in most cases, those used by Rockwell and Sally Kent, with some minor changes for consistency. The Kents' filing system included a "Miscellaneous" designation for each letter of the alphabet, used for single items or small quantities not requiring separate folders. To facilitate access and for ease of microfilm use, contents of the miscellaneous folders have been interfiled in sequence.
Material is arranged alphabetically, usually by the name of the individual or organization represented, though some file titles represent subjects or occasions (e.g., "Spanish Causes" and "Birthday").
Records are arranged chronologically within each file; brief summaries are provided for many titles, usually where there is a significant amount of material. Cross-referencing is supplied where possible to indicate areas of overlap, inconsistencies in filing, or name changes; references are to other file titles within this series.
The bulk of this series has been digitized. Material of very specialized or limited interest (e.g. banking records, dairy immunization records, employee tax records, dog licenses etc.) has not been digitized.
Abbe, George and Barbara
(concerning book jacket design for his novel, and request for help in finding a teaching position)
Abbott and Cobb
Abbott, William Morris
Abercrombie & Fitch Co.
Abercrombie, Frederick S.
Aberdeen Book Company
Abraham & Straus
Abraham Lincoln Brigade (see also: Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade)
Abraham Lincoln High School
Abraham Lincoln School
Abrahamson, Ben (Argus Book Shop)
Abroad
(correspondence with travel agent arranging trip to Europe)
A. C. A. Gallery
(includes first issue of
Academy of the Arts of the U.S.S.R.
Acker, Rikki (Mrs. Edward S. Acker)
Adamic, Mr.
Adams, Mrs. J. M.
Adams, Josephine Truslow
(regarding her dismissal from the Art Department of Swarthmore College, presumably for supporting liberal causes)
Adams, Margaret
Adamson, J. M.
Addison, Wilfred J.
Addresses Book, A-Z, 2 Alphabets (see also: Notes, Addresses, Phone Calls, etc.)
Addresses, Miscellaneous (see also: Notes, Addresses, Phone Calls, etc.)
Adelson Galleries, Inc.
Adirondack Moose River Committee
Adirondack Mountain Club
The Adirondack Museum
The Adirondack Record
Adirondack Wilderness Committee
Adler, Elmer (see also: American Institute of Graphic Arts, La Casa del Libro -
(correspondence concerning the founding of Princeton Print Club, activities and acquisitions, invitations to events, negotiations with Kent to produce the club's annual print; Adler's collection of Kent prints; advice to Kent on planning a trip to Puerto Rico; bookplate designs; design for Tripler, Co.; Adler's obituary, with clippings about La Casa del Libro, a typographical library in Puerto Rico established by Adler)
The Adomatic Man
Advance
Advance Glove Manufacturing Co.
Advertising Mobilization Committee
After Long Years
Agar, William and Alida
(about Paul Robeson; genocide petition)
Aid to Russia Fund
Air France
Air Mail Stamps
(concerns rubber stamp designed by Kent)
Air Transport Association
(concerning mural commission, with information about the design, progress reports, and the technical details of installation by Harry Frachtenberg, with photographs and clippings)
Air Transport Association, Photographs and Clippings
Al Alk, F. M.
Alameda County Industrial Union Council
Alanson, Mr.
Alaskan Development
(Senate Bill S.3566 to provide for the settlement and development of Alaska, with related clippings, news releases, and transcript of committee hearings)
Albany Institute of History and Art
Albertson, William
Alcoa Aluminum Job
(advertising copy, photograph, and photostat of Kent design)
(letters and drawings from foster child sponsored by the Kents)
Alexander, Claude H.
Alexander, Gross W. (see also American Russian Institute)
(about illustrations for his book,
Alfalfa Hill
Alfred, Helen (Peace Publications)
Alfred University
All American Dinner and Bazaar
All-American Editions, Inc.
Allen, Arthur S. and Family (see also: Greenland)
(family news; comments on Kent's book illustrations; commissions for advertising work; travel; color consulting)
Allen, Charles R., Jr.
(family news; peace petition and fund raising for Committee to Prevent World War III)
Allen, Jerome R., Jr.
Allen, Luther
(correspondence with a fan and beginning collector, with discussion of specific works, travel, and politics)
Allen, Ralph B.
(about illustrations for Allen's translations of Icelandic sagas)
Alley & Richards, Co.
(commission to illustrate U.S. Pipe and Foundry ads, with samples of previous ads)
Alliance Book Corporation
Allied Voters Against Coudert
Almanac Singers
Altland, Mrs. Frank J.
B. Altman & Co.
Altman, J.
Altschul, Arthur
Amalgamated Lace Workers of America
The Amateur Comedy Club, Inc.
America First Committee
The American Academy of Arts and Letters and The National Institute of Arts and Letters (see also: National Institute of Arts and Letters)
The American Academy of Political and Social Science
American Advertising Artists and Illustrators, Joint Ethics Committee
American Advertising Guild
(includes information about Advertising for Victory conference and membership; newsletters and announcements of activities)
American Airlines, Inc.
(concerning reservations)
American Alliance of Christians and Jews to Safeguard Tolerance
American Art Research Council
American Artists Co.
(about Hupmobile advertising campaign)
American Artists' Congress
(general mailings and printed matter about the Congress, bylaws and reports; arrangements for speakers, with copy of Kent's address, and letter to Margaret Bourke-White with summary of what Kent intended to say in their joint radio broadcast, "Should Artists Organize?"; notification of election to executive board; Kent's statement on Metropolitan Museum of Art's trade relations with Germany; exhibitions sponsored by AAC; Spanish Civil War; see also Artists League of America, and The Artists Union)
American Artists Group, Inc. (Carl Zigrosser and Samuel Golden; see also: Zigrosser, Carl)
(accounting and payment of royalties; commission to design AAG logo; plans for publication of limited editions; plans for
American Artists School, Inc.
American Association for the Tuberculous
American Bible Society
(proposal for Kent-illustrated edition of the Bible; plan for training international statesmen)
American Binder Company
(concerning commission to design window shade decorations)
The American Book Collector
American British Art Center
(promotional literature)
American Broadcasting Company
American Cancer Society, Inc.
American Car and Foundry Co.
(certificate of award from Art Directors Club for advertisement illustrated by Kent; correspondence concerning reproduction permission; see also: Calkins & Holden)
American Cigarette and Cigar Company
(request for Kent to endorse Pall Mall cigarettes and the aesthetic merits of their packaging)
American Civil Liberties Union
(printed matter)
American College Society of Print Collectors
(arrangements for Kent prints to be produced for the society; brochure about the society)
American Color Print Society
American Committee for Defense of British Homes
American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom
(Kent on the role of the artist in a democracy; printed matter)
American Committee for Friendship with the Soviet Union
(printed matter)
American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born
(invitations to speak; orders for annual award medal designed by Kent; printed matter)
American Committee for Spanish Freedom (see also: Spanish Causes)
American Committee for Yugoslav Relief, Inc.
American Committee of Jewish Writers, Artists and Scientists, Inc.
American Committee to Save Anti-Fascist Refugees
American Committee to Save Refugees
American Communications Association, C.I.O.
American Congress for Peace and Democracy
American Council of Learned Societies
American Council on Soviet Relations
(invitation to speak; printed matter)
American Federation of Teachers
(about dismissal of Pennsylvania teachers who signed nominating petitions for Communist Party candidates)
American Forestry Association
American Forests
American Friends of Czecho-Slovakia
American Friends of Danish Freedom and Democracy
American Friends of the Chinese People
(request for Artists Union support)
American Friends of the Mexican People
The American Guardian
American Guild for German Cultural Freedom (see also: Heilbut, Ivan)
(concerns sponsorship of German writer, Ivan Heilbut, for immigration to the U.S.)
American Guild of Variety Artists
American Institute for Economic Research
American Institute for Marxist Studies
American Institute of Graphic Arts
(about its book auction; dinner in honor of Elmer Adler and speech by Kent at that event)
American Jersey Cattle Club
American Jewish Alliance
American Labor Party (see also: Annual Labor Bazaar; Campaign, 1946; and Third Party)
(party registration list for Essex Co., N.Y., printed matter, reports, petitions, campaign literature for candidates at all levels; correspondence concerning meeting arrangements and art exhibitions, Kent art work for journal, fund raising, and yearbook; Kent's opinion on the timeliness of a third party in Essex Co., plans to run for Congress, and invitations to speak)
American League for Peace and Democracy (see also: Rotary Club)
(about Kent designs; invitation to speak; discussion of the group's position on issues and request for endorsement; Carnegie Institute's refusal to permit use of lecture room; minutes of national board)
American League to Abolish Capital Punishment
American Legion
(printed matter)
American Library Association
(transcript of Kent's address to its convention)
American Library of Color Slides
(concerns arrangements to produce slides of Kent's work; sample catalogs)
American Life Convention
American Merchant Marine
(inquiry about commissioning a poster)
American National Committee of Engraving Incorporated (John Taylor Arms; see also: Arms, John Taylor)
(membership invitation, report, information about exhibitions)
American Notes & Queries
American ORT Federation
(request for endorsement from United American Artists)
American Peace Crusade
(includes printed matter, reports, invitations to speak, and letters from Kent to President Truman about clemency for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg)
American Peace Mobilization and American Peace Mobilization Committee to Defend America by Keeping Out of War
(correspondence about emblem and Christmas card for the group, invitation to speak, and request for Kent's endorsement; printed matter)
American Photograph Corporation
American Platform Guild
(invitation)
American Polar Society
(printed matter)
American Red Cross
(correspondence concerning reproduction permission)
American Reedcraft Corp.
American Rescue Ship Mission
(request for Kent to donate painting for art sale benefiting the organization, and invitation to speak; printed matter)
American Russian Cultural Association, Inc.
(invitation to speak; printed matter)
American Russian Institute, Inc. (see also: Alexander, Gross W.)
(correspondence about Kent's exhibition in the USSR; endorsement of the organization; speaking engagements; Kent trip to Moscow to attend bureau meeting; peace seals designed by Kent; reports on various conferences, meetings, and events; leadership of the organization; Kent's autobiography; designs for cards; printed matter)
The American-Scandinavian Foundation
(invitation to write an article about Greenland)
The American School of Design
The American Socialist
American Society for Aesthetics
(promotional literature)
American Student Union
(invitation to speak; information about its antiwar activities)
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
(about Kent's sketches for phone book covers)
American Tobacco Company
(printed matter concerning CIO strike against the company)
American Women's Voluntary Services, Inc.
(invitation to enter poster exhibition)
American Youth Congress
(invitation to speak and serve on its board; printed matter)
American Youth for a Free World
(request for magazine cover design; printed matter)
Ames, Bee
Amirault, L. M.
Anderson, Doug
Anderson, John and Mavoureen
Andrews, Charlie
Andrews, Robert Armstrong
(correspondence about McCarthyism and Lattimore case; news of mutual friends; race relations; Kent's writings)
Andrews, Sperry
Angell, George and Ruth
Angelos Restaurant
Annin & Co.
Annual Labor Bazaar (see also: American Labor Party)
Anti-Nazi (General)
(printed matter, notes, and correspondence on the subject)
Antioch Bookplate Company
(correspondence about Kent bookplate and calendar designs, Quaker antiwar activities, and Kent's travels; royalty reports)
The Antioch Press
Appeals for Financial Support (see also: Causes (all entries); Charities; Contributions; Free Work; Gifts, Helpees, etc.; and organizations by name)
(printed matter and correspondence from a variety of of labor, civil liberties, civil rights, peace, social service, religious, and medical research groups)
Appeals for Financial Support, cont.
Appendicitis
(get-well cards and letters)
Applequist, Arnold
Archangelsky, Victor
Archer, William H.
Archives
(correspondence with universities and libraries about the disposition of Kent's personal papers)
Archives of American Art (see also: Interviews)
(concerns Kent's personal papers)
Arctic Institute of North America
Ardmore Printing Co.
Arens, Egmont, and Camille David (see also: Calkins & Holden)
(correspondence about royalties; how to distill alcohol; copyright problems with Kent's
Argosy Bookstore
Arkwell, Mrs.
Armenian Progressive League of America
Armenian War Relief
Armitage, Merle
(correspondence with collector about bookplates and Kent-illustrated books; text of speech by Armitage on "The Aristocracy of Art")
Arms, John Taylor (see also: American National Committee of Engraving Incorporated)
(correspondence about Kent's reasons for not wishing to participate in Artists for Victory Exhibition and why paintings rather than prints should represent him at this point in his career; gift of Kent print to Arms; congratulations to Kent on his election to National Academy of Design; letter of condolence to Dorothy Arms; Kent to Society of American Artists regarding contribution of a print to the John Taylor Arms Memorial Collection)
Arnold, Henrietta and Leslie
Arnold, Thurman
Art Alliance of America, Inc.
The Art Appreciation Movement
Art Book Guild of America, Inc.
(about Kent design for the guild's logo; opinions of books sent for critique; advertisements)
The Art Digest, Inc.
Art Directors Club
(arrangement for exhibitions; request for Kent to write foreword to its annual exhibition catalog)
Art Directory, Inc.
Art Gallery of Toronto
(correspondence about Kent exhibition and lecture; purchase of a print and painting by the museum)
Art In War
(printed matter on the subject issued by a variety of organizations)
Art Institute of Chicago (see also: Chicago Art Institute)
(invitation to participate in annual exhibition and to speak; sale of painting)
Art Movement, Inc.
Art News
The Art Students League of New York
Artist Associates
Artists Committee for the President's Birthday
Artists' Conference of the Americas
(notification of election to chairmanship; printed matter)
Artists Coordination Committee
Artists Equity Association
(mainly printed matter, including: constitution and bylaws, report of first regular membership meeting, and membership lists; also, letter from Kent in response to the question "What is a professional artist?" and charges by Kent that TB Society Christmas Seals program treats artists unfairly)
Artists Equity Association cont.
Artists for Russia
Artists for Victory, Inc.
(printed matter regarding membership, exhibitions, and other activities)
Artists Front to Win the War
Artists Guild, Inc.
(about book illustrations and publishers; discussion of need for fair practices standards in the industry)
Artists in Defense
(correspondence with a variety of organizations about poster designs, speaking engagements, and endorsements; printed matter regarding exhibitions and competitions)
Artists League of America (see also: American Artists' Congress; and The Artists Union)
(correspondence with Philip Evergood, Harry Gottleib, Charles Keller, Lynd Ward, and other officers of ALA about: exhibitions; Kent's catalog introductions and articles for the newsletter; typography; criticisms of organization of WPA Federal Arts section; ALA's Victory Workshop; unions; artists' rights, particularly copyright and reproduction rights; discussion of ALA programs, publications, and organizational problems; Young Artists League; national politics; and printed matter, including publications of various ALA chapters)
(correspondence, invoices, etc., relating to the purchase of supplies; brochures, advertisements, and samples)
The Artists Union (see also: American Artists' Congress; Artists League of America; and Seckar, Alvena)
(includes: invitations to speak; letters from chapters detailing their plans and activities; Kent's ideas about how to organize the union's hierarchy; appeal by Kent for the support in his dispute with U.S. government over its right to alter his mural; printed matter)
Artkino Pictures Inc.
(correspondence concerning ordering a copy of its film about Kent exhibition in Moscow)
Arts & Decoration
The Arts Bureau of Gartner and Bender, Inc.
Arts Council of Japanese Americans for Democracy
Asgaard Dairy Case
(concerns boycott of Kent's dairy due to his support of Henry Wallace for president; includes letters canceling orders, clippings, legal papers transferring ownership to remaining employees, and letters of support)
Ashley, Julia
Ashworth, John
Assade, Liuba (see also: Solov, Liuba)
Associated American Artists, Inc.
(concerns exhibitions, sales, and commissions)
Associated American Artists, Inc., cont.
Associated Magazine Contributors, Inc.
Association on American Indian Affairs, Inc.
Astor, Mme.
Atkins, Arthur
Attorneys
(correspondence with Leonard Boudin and other lawyers concerning personal, professional, and dairy business, including: divorce from Frances, settling disputes with publishers and other clients, warnings about libelous passages in his writings, daughter Kathleen's problems collecting alimony and child support payments, taxes, estate of mother, real estate transactions, Kent's will and estate planning, visa and passport applications)
(correspondence and statements regarding investments)
August, Charles
AuSable Branch of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad Corp. Lawsuit (see also: Train)
(correspondence, legal documents, and printed matter about preventing discontinuation of passenger service)
AuSable Valley Telephone Company, Inc.
Authors League of America
Autobiography (
(correspondence with publishers, research letters, arrangements for illustrations, 1953-1953; also, fan mail, 1955-1958)
Autobiography (
Avery, Anne (see also: Kent, Sarah Holgate)
(correspondence with companion of Sarah Holgate Kent [mother])
Avery, George E.
Avery, Terry
Axelrod, Betty
Axelsen, A. B.
N. W. Ayer & Son
(orders for commercial work with comments on sketches; invitations)
Aymar, Gordon C.
(request to write introduction to his book about advertising illustration; also concerns Kent illustration for other books edited by Aymar)
A, Unidentified
(C. W. A., undated; J. H. G. A., 1959)
Bacon, Betty
Bacon, Prall Grant (Mrs. Marshal L. Bacon)
Bailey, Frank
Baily, Harold James
Bajalia, Mrs. Albert
G. A. Baker & Co., Inc.
Baker, Keith
Balch Autograph Collection (Albert S. Balch)
Baldwin, C. B.
Baldwin, Henry T.
Baldwin, Leon C.
Balk, Christina and Robert
Balken, Nick (Edward)
(correspondence about travel to the USSR and exhibition there; Kent family news)
Balkovic, Zlatko
P. Ballantine & Sons
The Ballaton Journal
The Baltimore Museum of Art
Bamer, Delbert
Bancroft, Bert
Banff, Canada
(plans and arrangements for 1952 trip; correspondence with friends about family news; comments on Kent's work; information about McCarthy investigations; printed matter on the region and Banff School of Fine Arts; see also: Reed, Gordon and Kate)
Bangor Public Library
Banker, Carl
Banker, Grace
(farm account and personal banking records)
Bannister, Estrid (see also: Good, Estrid)
(correspondence about translation of
Bannister, Geoffrey
Barbizon Plaza Hotel
Barlow, Samuel M. and Ernesta
Barlowe, Jerry C.
Barnard & Simons Co., Inc.
A. S. Barnes & Company
Barnes, Harry Elmer
Barnes, Julius H.
Barnett, Lincoln
Mary Gaston Barnwell Foundation
(correspondence concerning arrangements for Kent's Barnwell Address at Central High School, Philadelphia, with a transcript of his talk, "Art Is for Everyone")
Baroody, Jamil
Barr, Norman and Louise
(correspondence about: Artists League of America, World War II, Kent family news; news of Norman Barr in the service, through his mother, Louise)
Barrett Art Gallery
Barrette, Clifton A.
Barringer, Laura Graham
Barrows, Alice
Barth, Lawrence
(correspondence about Barth's writings on American culture and the use of psychology in political work, with copies of his articles)
Barth, Lawrence, cont.
Bartlett, Bob
Bartlett, Mary J.
Barton, Eleanor
Barton, Lyman G. and Ethel
Barton, Philip B.
Bartz, Fred
Bassett, Norman and Sally (see also: Demco Library Supplies)
Ted Bates Incorporated
Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborne
(about advertising work)
Bauerberg, Dr. Paul J.
Baugild, Mary and Albert
(correspondence about mutual friends and Kent collectors in the Chicago area; Kent's autobiography)
Baum, Marjorie Jane
Bauman, Mr. and Mrs. Mordecai
Baxter, Mr.
Bayer, Minna
A. G. Beaman Agency, Limited
Bean, Lawrence W.
Bech, George
Beck, John H.
Beck, Mrs. L. V.
Beck, Torben
Becker, Jim and Frances
Becker, Maurice
(correspondence concerning the house Kent built for his mother on Monhegan Island, Maine; request for information about getting Becker's paintings included in the Art of Today Collection (Friendship House, Moscow))
Bedacht, Max
(correspondence about the 1948 presidential election and the need for a functioning Socialist Party in the U.S.; Kent's trip to the USSR)
Beechepies, Marie
Beecher, John
Belfrage, Mary and Cedric
Belknap, Cyril
Bell, John A.
Bell, William and Helen
Bemelman, Ludwig
Bendix, Hans
Benezech, Monique and Jean
(correspondence including: Kent's views on the 1952 presidential election and the state of civil liberties in the U.S.; also, family news and Kent's struggle to obtain a passport)
Benham, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley
Bennett College
Bennett, Melba
Bennington Drama Festival
Benton & Bowles, Inc. (see also: Gerard, Sanford (Jerry)
(concerning advertising illustrations for bituminous coal clients)
Benton, Charles
Benton, William
Berkshire School
Bernal, Professor
Berney, Matilda and Leon (Bernie)
(correspondence about Kent's autobiography, passport case, 1956 presidential election, exhibition in the USSR, and Moscow travel plans)
Bernhard, Lucian
Bernstein, Burt and Ellen
Bernstein, Irene
Bernstein, Violet (Mrs. Irving D. Bernstein)
Berry, Frederick F.
Beseler Lantern Slide Company
Bessemer, Auriel
Bessie, Alvah
Beta Sigma Phi Sorority
Bettelheim, Ralph W.
Beverly Hills Library
The Bezalel National Museum
Biberman, Ed
Biberman, Herbert, and Gale Sondergaard (see also: Sondergaard, Gale)
Bibliographers
(requests for information about Kent and his published works)
Bibliography,
(includes: correspondence, lists of individuals and institutions owning Kent work, bibliography of books illustrated and/or written by Kent, invitation list, miscellaneous documents, and manuscript)
Bickford, Arthur J.
Biddle, Fran
Biddle, George
(correspondence about reviews by Biddle and others of Kent's autobiography)
Bigelow, M. W.
(invoices, mainly for dairy equipment)
(printed matter)
Bingham, J. Fred
Biographical Encyclopedia of the World
The Biosophical Institute
Birchman, Willis
(fan mail and correspondence about Art Young)
Birnbaum, Martin
Birthday
(greeting cards, letters and telegrams of congratulation, clippings, and replies from Kent)
Birthday, cont.
Bittner-Galland
Bjarnason, Paul and Dora
(correspondence about Kent's exhibition and trip to Moscow; other travels)
Black, Ruby (see also: Federal Fine Arts Department)
(correspondence regarding plans to replace Kent's Puerto Rican mural; also, printed matter concerning proposed Bureau of Fine Arts and the Puerto Rican needlework industry)
Blackford, John C.
Blair, Martha
(correspondence and legal papers concerning Blair's lease of a house from Kent)
Bligh, Thea
(correspondence about passport case, exhibition in the USSR and travel plans; also, family news and international politics)
Blitzstein, Marc
Block, Gordon A., Jr.
Blodgett, Rev. F. P.
Bloom, A. Morton
(about World War II, and family news)
Bloom, Bessie
(about her book on Harry Dexter White)
Charles Bloom, Inc.
(regarding textile designs)
Bloomenthal, Aleck
Bloomfield, Marilyn
Bloor, Mother Ella Reeve
Blowitz, Gertrude
Blue, Genevieve
Blue Ribbon Books
(regarding book jacket designs)
Blum, A. Coleman
Blum, Jerome
Boardman, Mrs.
Boas, Franz
Boehm, Otto and Paula
Bofman, Albert
Boissevain, Anne
Bola, Ronald J.
Bolen, James
Bolotnikov, Nikita
Albert and Charles Boni, Inc. (see also: Creative Art)
(correspondence concerning book illustration and design, commission for Kent-designed bookends)
Albert and Charles Boni, Inc. (see also: Creative Art)
Bonittas, Myrta
Bonsel, Frederick A.
Book and Magazine Union (Book and Magazine Guild)
(regarding fund-raising and war relief efforts)
The Book & Print Shop
Book Club of America
Book Find Club, Inc.
(printed matter about club and request for Kent to design its logo)
The Book Mobilization
Book-of-the-Month-Club
(about commission to illustrate membership prospectus)
The Book Service Company
Bookfinders
Bookplate Clients
(correspondence about designs for individuals and libraries, with some samples; see also: Jobs)
Bookplates
(correspondence and inquiries)
Bookplates by Others
(letters from collectors requesting exchanges; samples)
Books
(correspondence with publishers; book orders, mainly for
Borressen, Peter and family
Bosley, Homer
Boss, Homer
(notice of memorial retrospective exhibition at Museum of New Mexico)
The Boston Antique Shop
Boston Art Club
The Boston Herald
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Boudin, Jean (Mrs. Leonard Boudin)
Boudin, Kathy
Bowdoin College Museum of Art
(correspondence concerning exhibition; appraisal of Kent Estate)
Boyer, Frank
Boyer, Richard C.
Boyesen, Bayard and Priscilla
(correspondence about reviews of
Boynton, Mary Fuertes
Brace, Don and Ida
Bradshaw, Laurence and Eileen
Bragg Brothers
Bragman, Naomi
Brasol, Boris and Maurice Leon
(printed matter about Brasol's association with Leon and their influence on Henry Ford's anti-Semitic and fascist ideas; also Nazi propaganda)
Brasol, Boris and Maurice Leon, cont.
Brassner, Julius
(regarding designs for glassware gift items)
Bray, Harry
Brazil
(report on 1937 trip with Jerome Davis, representing the National Committee for People's Rights and the Joint Committee for the Defense of the Brazilian People, including: correspondence about the trip, notes, draft, and report; printed matter, including clippings, and transcripts of speech in Brazilian Senate; miscellaneous items concerning politics in Brazil)
Brentano's
(book orders)
Brewer & Lord Insurance
Brewer & Warren, Inc.
(regarding publication, promotion, and translation of
Brewing Industry Foundation
Brewster, O. Byron
(correspondence about family; marriage of Kathleen Kent; estate of Phelps Smith; forest preservation; personal legal business, including deeds and dairy license)
Bridges, Harry
(includes form letters and other printed matter from Citizens Committee for Harry Bridges, Harry Bridges Defense Committee, and Harry Bridges Victory Committee; letters from Kent to public officials protesting impending deportation of Bridges; letters from Kent to Bridges about the outcome of the case and the importance of patronage to living artists)
Briehl, Walter and Marie
(correspondence concerning the Briehl's upcoming trip to the USSR, with requests for Kent's advice)
Bright, Marjorie
Brin, Mabel
Brinton, Christian
British War Relief Society
Broadcast Measurement Bureau Incorporated
Brock, T.
Joseph R. Brodsky Memorial Committee
The Brooklyn Museum and The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences
(about reproduction permissions; gift to the museum; lecture; Kent's views on artists' rights over reproduction of their work; see also: United American Printmakers vs. Brooklyn Museum)
Brooks, Gladys
Browder, Earl
(form letters and printed matter from Committee to Free Earl Browder; letters from Kent to public officials and friends requesting support for Browder; see also: Roosevelt, Franklin D. and Eleanor)
Brown, Allen
Brown, Bob
Brown, Lewis S.
(correspondence concerning Kent's attempts to help Brown get a WPA job; Brown's work on the anatomy of the horse and subsequent employment at American Museum of Natural History)
Brown, Robin
Brown, Ruth Shirley
Brownell, Don Carlos
(regarding Arctic and sub-Arctic development)
Browning, H. G.
Bruce's Books
Bruck, Lorraine (Associated Gallery of Art)
Brush, Helen S.
Bryan, Kit and Kitten
Bryant, Doris
Bryden-Brown, Louise
Buck, Seaver B.
(arrangements for Gordon Kent to attend Berkshire School; reminiscences and family news)
W. S. Budworth & Son
(arrangements for shipping paintings; see also: Exhibition Correspondence)
Budzislawski, Beate
Bufano, Beniamino
Buffalo Courier Express
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy and Albright Art Gallery
(correspondence concerning lecture and bookplate design)
Bulgaria
(correspondence with friends in Bulgaria about family, travels, and politics)
Bulgaria, cont.
Bunker, M. N.
Bunzel, Joseph and Trudy
(correspondence about exhibition in the USSR, travels, and family news; copy of Bunzel's "Outline for a Social History of Art")
Burchett, Wilfred
Bureau of Motor Vehicles, Plattsburgh, New York
Burgess, Neil and Alice
Burgess, William
Burke-Wadsworth Bill
(printed matter, and letters from Kent to public officials urging them to vote against conscription)
Burlington, Vermont, City of
Burliuk, David
(correspondence about Burliuk's collection, George Biddle, and Kent's trip to Moscow)
Burndy Library
Burnett, Mr.
Burnham, Koert
(correspondence about colored glazes and the possibility of mineral deposits in Asgaard property)
Burns, Lt. and Mrs. Thomas Robert
Burrage, Lucia
Burroughs, Bryson (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
(see also: Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Burstyn, Mae
Burton, Mary
Burton, Wilfred C.
Bushey, Warren
Butler, Frank
Butler, Ron
Butler, William J.
Bynner, Walter (Hal)
(correspondence about Bynner's and Kent's writings; Kent's trip to Moscow)
Byrne, Mrs.
B, Unidentified and Illegible
(George and Anna, 1969; C. [illegible], 1943)
Cable, Adeline A.
Cacchione, Peter V.
Cafeteria Employees Union
Caffin, Charles H.
Caldwell, J. B. F.
Calhoun, Bill
(correspondence with an artist neighbor in the service, with news of: his training, World War II, and mutual friends in the armed forces; sample postcard, cartoon, and book cover designed by Calhoun; later letters concern family and career development)
Calkins, Ernest
Calkins & Holden (Egmont Arens and Rene Clark)
(correspondence about award-winning advertising series for American Car and Foundry Co., news of mutual friends, and Lakeside Press exhibition of Kent's illustrations; marriage of Egmont Arens and Camille David; solicitation of articles for
Arens, Egmont, and Camille David
Clark, Rene)
Cameo Theater
Cameron, Angus
(correspondence about 1952 presidential election; election; Kent on self-expression, functionalism, and mass production; establishment of Cameron and Kahn, publishers, and their uncensored books on politically controversial subjects; Kent's design of colophon and jackets for Cameron and Kahn; printed matter about Liberty Book Club, a subsidiary of Cameron and Kahn)
Cameron, Sheila (Mrs. Angus Cameron) and children
Campaign (Office of Civilian Defense)
(letters of endorsement urging appointment of Kent to post in graphic arts section of Office of Civilian Defense; see also: Office of Civilian Defense)
Campaign (Kent for Congress, American Labor Party)
(correspondence with American Labor Party officials and organizations supporting Kent's candidacy for Congress; reasons for early withdrawal from race; Clinton County, N.Y., ALP enrollment list; miscellaneous printed matter)
Campaign (Kent for Congress, American Labor Party), cont.
Campaign (Kent for Congress; Kent's support of Henry Wallace)
(correspondence and printed matter about Kent's campaign for Congress; Kent's activities in support of Henry Wallace for president, including text of undelivered radio address; clippings and advertising, press releases, schedules; see also: American Labor Party; Culture; North Country Wallace for President Committee)
(printed matter concerning political issues and candidates at the local and national levels)
Campbell, Ann and Douglas
Campbell, Mildred F.
Campbell, S. J.
Campbell-Mithun, Inc.
Campos, Pedro Albizu
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Canadian Fareastern Newsletter
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Candee, Ruth
Candide
(correspondence with publisher and printer concerning production of the deluxe, limited edition illustrated by Kent)
Cann, J. H.
Cannon, Irving
Cannon, Mrs.
Cano, Louise P.
Canter, David S.
Canterbury Tales
(contract and royalty accounts; correspondence with publisher about impending bankruptcy and reprint by another firm)
Cantwell, Francis Barry
Capital Airlines
Caplan, David and Nan
Caprile, A. (Tito), Jr.
(insurance, repair, inspection, and registration records for personal automobile)
CARE
H. T. Carey, Joost & Patrick
Carlen, Robert
Carlson, Willard L.
Carlson, William S.
Carnegie Institute
(correspondence regarding International Exhibitions, including: Kent poster design for 24th International Exhibition (1927), catalog text, jury duty, invitations to exhibit, insurance and shipping arrangements, 3d Honorable Mention (1938), and sales; Founders' Day Exhibition; Kent's response to question, "What do you consider your best easel painting?")
Carolin, Kathryn Reed
Carothers, J. Edward
Carroll, Florence E.
Carroll, John and Inez
(letters describing their European travels, with brief mention of Carroll's painting and studio in Paris)
Carson, Pirie Scott & Co.
Carter, Barbara Kent [daughter] and Alan
(correspondence concerning vacation plans, summer employment, marriage, family news, Alan's position on Faculty of Middlebury College and formation of orchestra; Wallace campaign; letters from grandchildren; see also: Kent, Barbara)
Carter, Barbara Kent [daughter] and Alan, cont.
Carter, Dyson
Carter, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Percival
Carver, Bill
Carver, Francis
Carver, Mary and Frank
Cary, William H.
La Casa del Libro
(see also: Adler, Elmer)
Casals, Pablo
Casserole
Cassevaugh, Eileen, Guy, and Family
The Catholic Worker
Catton, Bruce
(printed matter)
(printed matter)
(printed matter)
(printed matter)
(printed matter)
Causes--Miscellaneous
(miscellaneous correspondence, mainly form letters, and matter from a variety of organizations printed; see also: Appeals for Financial Support; Charities; Contributions; Free Work; Gifts, Helpees, etc.; Sponsorship; organizations by name)
Causes--Miscellaneous, cont.
Cawley, F. B.
Center Book Service
Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions
Central Greyhound Lines, Inc.
Central Michigan College of Education
(statements and canceled checks)
The Century Magazine
Chahoon, I. H. and Mary
Chaimson, Reva (Mrs. Harry Chaimson)
Chaliapin, Boris
Chamber of Commerce (AuSable, N.Y.)
(correspondence regarding Publicity Committee, and arrangements to produce new brochure; see also: Dow & Peterson)
Chamberlain, Joseph Edgar
Jacques Chambrun, Inc. (literary agent)
Jacques Chambrun, Inc. (literary agent), cont.
The Champlain Players
Chand, Kailash
Chandry, Mary
Chapin, Edward E.
(correspondence about mutual friends including Peter Freuchen; politics; Kent on abstract art)
Chapin, J. H.
Chaplin, Charlie
(letters from Kent presenting book, requests that Chaplin learn more about conditions in POW camps for use in film)
Chappell, George S., Amy, and Ruth
(correspondence concerning misunderstanding about Kent paintings deposited with him in 1914, and attempts to reclaim them; see also: Owen and Chappell)
Chappell, William B.
Charities
(miscellaneous correspondence and printed matter [chronological order]; see also: Appeals for Financial Support; Causes; Contributions; Free Work; Gifts, Helpees, etc.; and organizations by name)
Charney, Hal and Mary
Charter, Steve
Chase Brass and Copper Co.
(correspondence about Kent designs for gift items, with drawing for wine cooler; catalog and price list, with Kent's order)
Chase, Greenleaf T.
Chase, Greta (Mrs. Greenleaf T. Chase)
Chase, Mr. and Mrs. H. F.
Chase, Jimmie and Busto
(correspondence about travels and family news; see also: "Dickie")
Chase, Stephanie P.
Chase, William Merritt (The New York School of Art)
Chattanooga Youth Club
Cheever, Lawrence Oakley
(correspondence concerning bookplates and collectors)
Chegodaev, Andrei
(correspondence and invoices regarding dairy equipment)
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company
(about commission for painting and plans for a trip with a company executive to locate a suitable subject ["Harry Benner, Coal Miner"])
Cheshire Academy [R.K., class of 1896]
(concerning Kent lithograph of campus building for fund-raising purposes)
Chetwood-Aiken, Hugh C.
Chicago & Illinois Midland Railway Company
Chicago Art Institute
(correspondence regarding Kent exhibition, with plans; gift of canceled woodblock; see also: Art Institute of Chicago)
Chicago Bartenders and Beverage Dispensers' Union
Chicago Council of American-Soviet Friendship, Inc.
Chicago Printed String Co.
Chicago Printing Trades Union
Chicago Public Library Employees Union
Chicago Repertory Group
Children's Hospital Convalescent Home
China Aid Council
China Reconstructs
Chinese News Services, Inc.
Christian Register
(correspondence about cover design; freedom; Spain; reaction from readers to Kent's letter to the editor)
Christie, Mrs. A. S.
Christmas Cards, A-Z
(includes greeting cards from: E. Weyhe, 1928-1930; Kuniyoshi, 1932-1933; and Art Young, 1940; cards with original prints by Gari Melchers, 1932-1933; M. Zorach, 1932-1933; Rainey Bennett, 1940 [none of these sent by the artists]; samples of cards designed by Kent; see also: files for friends by name)
Christmas Cards Designed (Reproduction Permissions)
Christmas Cards, Illegible and Unidentified
Christmas Presents
Churchill, William
Ciba Pharmaceutical Products Incorporated
Cincinnati Country Club
Cincinnati Modern Art Society
The Citizens Committee for the Army and Navy, Inc.
Citizens' Committee for Government Art Projects
(correspondence about organizing and lobbying to assure adequate federal appropriations for Fine Arts Division of WPA, with copy of prepared statement of CCGAP to House Subcommittee; printed matter; see also: WPA Miscellaneous)
Citizens' Non-Partisan Committee for the Serviceman's Vote
(correspondence regarding trust fund for Philip J. Quilmartin, under the will of Ellen J. Banker, Rockwell Kent, Custodian; stock transfers and account statements)
The City Club
City-Wide Tenants Council
(correspondence about designing a medal for the organization)
Civil Liberties Committee, New York City
(correspondence about William L. Patterson Defense Fund; Paul Robeson's fight to obtain a U.S. passport)
Civil Rights Congress of New York
Civil Rights Federation
(about speaking engagement)
Claghorn, Sarah N.
Clark, Walter and Leonora
Clarke, Jeanette and Tillie
Clarke, Jeanette and Tillie, cont.
Clarkson, W. M. E.
Cleland, Thomas Maitland
(correspondence about plastic for transparent drawings; article on Cleland's graphic work; Cleland's plans for a book, and opinions on standards for museum collections; correspondence between Kent and potential benefactors in an effort to find financial support for Cleland's book and to lift him out of a serious depression; Cleland's rejection of Graphic Arts Society certificate of merit; Kent on new patron drawn to him because of his political views and the passport case; plans for "The Great Kent Collection"; Kent's Moscow trip and exhibition; politics, McCarthy, and Cleland's acquaintance with Alger Hiss; correspondence with author of article on Cleland)
Clemens, Cyril (International Mark Twain Society)
Cleveland Museum of Art
(receipts and letters of thanks for gifts of drawings and canceled woodblock)
Clifton, Sue and Dave
Clinton Prison
Clivette
The A. B. Closson, Jr., Co.
(advertisements)
Cluett, Sanford L. and Camilla
Clyde, Ethel
Cobb, George W., Jr.
(correspondence about tin can banks for charitable contributions decorated with art reproductions)
Cobbe, Thomas
(correspondence with collector concerning purchase of Kent prints, with price list of available works)
Cobble Hill Press
Cobert, Samuel
Cockcroft, Van and Cynthia
D. Cohen & Sons, Inc.
Cohen, Robert
(about investments in Metals & Controls Corporation)
Colby College
Cole, Amadee J.
Cole, Mrs.
Lewis Coleman (Defense Fund)
Coleman, Verna and Ross
A. Colish, Inc.
(concerning printing orders for: bookplates, Kent's personal stationery, jackets for books by Kent, and commissions for miscellaneous illustrations)
Colodne, Carl
(correspondence with a fan, including Colodne's poem about Kent)
Colon, Jesus and Conchita
Colonial Airlines
(about reservations; complaints)
Colony, Horatio
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
Colorfax Laboratories
Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. (CBS)
(general information about beginnings of commercial broadcasting; request for archival film footage of Kent for use in documentary,
Columbia Lecture Bureau
(correspondence about speaking engagements, with schedules and contracts; see also: Lecture Bureaus)
Columbia News Service
Columbia Pictures Corporation
Columbia University
(correspondence with university officials about Kent's studies and scholarship; also, transcript and copy of Professor Ware's proposal to McDowell for "Professional Schools of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, and Music under a University Faculty"; later correspondence concerns speech and bookplate design)
Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts
Columbus Museum
Colvin, Charles
The Commercial National Bank and Trust Company
Commerce, Department of
Commissioner of Immigration
Committee for Defense of Public Education
Committee for Defense of Students' Rights
Committee for Democracy in Radio
(includes correspondence with Harold Ickes requesting endorsement of its cause)
Committee for Employment of Professional Skills in the War Program
Committee for People's Rights (Philadelphia)
(correspondence about speaking engagements; invitation to participate in fund-raising events; cancellation of order for medal designed by Kent)
Committee on Discrimination in Employment
Committee to End Sedition Laws
Common Council for American Unity
Communist Party
Compulsory Military Service
(miscellaneous printed matter; correspondence about Kent's plan to make compulsory military service an educational opportunity and include mandatory training in democracy, responsible citizenship, and world peace)
Comstock, E. A.
Condolence Letters and Sympathy Cards, A-Z (see also: Funeral; Memorial portfolio)
Congress for Disarmament
Congress of American Artists
Congress of American-Soviet Friendship
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
(correspondence about 1944 presidential election; miscellaneous printed matter; request for help in improving design of its newsletter)
Congress on International Relations in the World of Art
Connecticut College
Connecticut Conference on Social and Labor Legislation
Connely, Mrs. L. F.
Conniff, Terry (Mrs. W. Arthur Conniff)
Connolly, Charles H., Jr.
Conover, Ernest R.
Conservation Department
Consolidated Tours Inc.
(printed matter about "scientific buying")
Consumers Union
Contempora, Inc.
(concerning "Art to Industry" project, with correspondence about designs for wallpaper and home furnishings; related contracts and publicity)
Contemporary Art, [National] Gallery of
(correspondence and publicity concerning the extraordinary influence of the National Academy of Design in determining artists' career success; drafts of statements; critique of 102d Annual Exhibition (1927); proposal for National Gallery of Contemporary Art, with declaration of organization; Florence N. Levy's request to list NGCA in
Contracts
(with lecture bureaus, publishers, advertising clients, etc.; also concerning dairy business)
Contreras, Belisarios R.
Contributions
(receipts, correspondence, and miscellaneous printed matter; membership cards; see also: Appeals for Financial Support; Causes; Charities; Free Work; Gifts, Helpees, etc.; and organizations by name)
Cook, Dexter G.
Coolidge, Bob
Coolidge, W. H.
Cooper, Lillie
The Cooperative Bookshop
Cooperative Extension Work in Agriculture and Home Economics, State of New York
The Corcoran Gallery of Art
(letter of protest against the jury system; reproduction permission; request for information about Kent print donated by James Rosenberg)
Corey, George H.
Coronet Magazine
The Corpus Christi Caller-Times
Corwin, Norman
Cosmos Travel Bureau
Cottle, Gladys
(printed matter, including statistics on Jews and communism)
Coulbron, Leon
Council for Pan American Democracy
(printed matter)
Council on African Affairs, Inc.
County [Essex Co., N.Y.] Politics
(correspondence with editor of
Courbos, John
Cousins, Norman
Cove, Florence E.
Coventry, Ethel
Covici, Friede, Inc.
(correspondence about the technical details of printing Kent-illustrated editions)
Cowdin, Cheever and Katherine
(news of mutual friends; investments, real estate, and legal matters; see also: Fence Dispute)
Cox, Alice, and Edwina Crunden (see also: Crunden, Alice and Family)
Carol Cox Book Company
Craft Horizons
Cranbrook Institute of Science
(concerning Kent design for letterhead; gift of archaeological artifacts from Greenland)
Craven, Mr.
Craver, Isabel D. (Mrs. Bates H. Craver)
Crawley, John J.
Creative Art
(drafts for editorials by Kent, 1927-1928; correspondence about development and management of the journal; responses from Albert Laessle, Timothy Cole, and George Biddle to the question: "Should American art students study abroad?"; plans for articles on Kent by Lee Simonson and Frank Crowninshield; editorials; see also: Albert and Charles Boni, Inc.)
Creative Printmakers Group
Creighton, William J.
Cronquist, Ralph
Crook, Kenneth E.
Crosbie, Paul
Cross, Anson Kent
Cross, Mrs. Charles
Cross, John W.
Cross World Books
Crotched Mountain Foundation
(inquiry about commissioning a mural; promotional literature regarding the foundation)
Crowe Name Plate & Manufacturing Co.
(negotiations and technical specifications for Kent drawing)
Thomas Y. Crowell Company
Crown Publishers
Crowninshield, Frank
Crunden, Alice and family (see also: Cox, Alice, and Edwina Crunden)
Cultural Conference Committee
Culture
(correspondence and proposals in support of a cultural platform for a new political party, with miscellaneous printed matter, including: "A Party Platform for the Arts"; "Rsum of Still-Born Address to World Congress for Peace, April 1949"; jury for National Council of Arts and Sciences Christmas card competition; see also: Campaign, 1948; International Workers Order; National Council of the Arts, Sciences and Professions; and Third Party)
Culture, Minister of (USSR)
Culver, Anne and George
Culver, Dr. and Marjorie
Culver, Jane
Culver Military Academy
Cummings, Philip H.
Cunningham, W. A.
Current Theatre, Inc.
(letters to friends endorsing the project and asking help in securing financial backers; requests to evaluate scripts)
The Currier Press
(proposals for Kent-illustrated editions)
Customs
(correspondence and declarations forms concerning art work exhibited abroad or loaned for reproduction; disagreement over artistic vs. utilitarian nature of book illustration; also, duty paid on personal purchases when on vacation in Puerto Rico)
Cutcliff, Charles
Czechoslovak Life
Czechoslovakia
C, Unidentified and Illegible
(Anne K. C., undated; Mary [illegible]-Clarke [?], undated; Peggy, 1970; Ted and Minna C., 1959-1960; W. S. C., 1955)
D & J Sadlier & Co. Reg'd.
Da Fonseca, Gondin
Dahlgren, Olga
Daily Worker
(correspondence regarding subscription, letter to the editor, and comments on articles)
(correspondence with suppliers of feed and equipment and Department of Agriculture; licenses, delivery route data, advertising and sales statistics;
Dairy Farmers' Union
Dame, Dolores Theresa Ann
Dame, Mr.
Bernard Dannenberg Galleries
Daniel, Charles
(letters about exhibitions, and painting sales and payments)
Danish Exhibit--World's Fair
(printed matter; correspondence about loan of Greenland expedition artifacts to the Danish Pavillion)
Danzig, Charles
Dargan, Olive
The Darwin Anniversary Committee
Dauber & Pine Bookshops Incorporated
Daugaard-Jensen
(correspondence about his screen play and request for help in finding a producer; family news; proposal for Kent to do weekly radio broadcasts from Greeland, with inquiries about specialized equipment for the trip; (see also: Denmark Correspondence; and Greenland)
Daura, Pierre
Davidson, Jo
Davidson, Lillian (Mrs. Frank B. Davidson)
Davies, Arthur B.
Davies, Rev. W. Ellis
D'Avignon, Theresa
Davis, Alton F.
Davis, Angela
(printed matter and fund-raising literature)
Davis, Benjamin J.
Davis, Rev. F. Havis (
Frank E. Davis Fish Company
Davis, Mrs. George A.
Davis, Hassoldt (Bill)
Davis, Henry R.
(concerning cards and printing orders by Rapid Blue Print Co.)
Davis, Dr. Jerome
Davis, Robert H.
(clippings and printed matter regarding Davis's exhibition of photographic portraits of famous people, including Kent; correspondence about Kent-illustrated books)
The John Day Company Inc. Publishers
Day, Richard
(correspondence about mutual friends; Day's work as a camouflage instructor for the U.S. Navy)
Dayton Historical Society
De Blasio, Pauline
Decca Records, Inc.
DeCordova Museum
Deedy, Marjorie L.
Defenders of 3 Against HUAC
Defense Committee for Dr. Du Bois
(correspondence and printed matter concerning fund raising and Peace Information Center; see also: Du Bois, W. E. B.)
Defense Counsel
(statement by Kent on the influence of Marxism-Leninism on culture in general and on his own work, solicited for use by defense counsel in trial of Communist Party members)
Dehn, Adolf
DeLacy, Hugh
The Delaware and Hudson Railroad Corporation
Demarais, Dorothy B. (Woodward Memorial Library)
Demco Library Supplies
(correspondence about cover designs for magazine's special issue on Kent; plans for issue honoring Louis Untermeyer; see also: Bassett, Norman and Sally)
Democratic Committee of Essex Co. (see also: Essex Co. Democratic Committee)
Denis, Paul
Denmark Correspondence
(letters from friends and acquaintances with family news; Berket-Smith plan for archaeological expedition to Alaska; requests for help in finding publishers; book lists and miscellaneous receipts; see also: Daugaard-Jensen; and Rasmussen, Knud)
Dennis, Eugene and Peggy
Dennison, Joseph A.
Denver Art Institute
Department of Commerce, State of New York
Department of State
Department of State, Passport Division (see also: Passport Applications)
Department of Welfare, New York City
DePol, John
(receipts for personal and dairy checking and savings accounts in several banks)
Descendants of the American Revolution
(correspondence concerning Kent's membership application; commission to design a medal; printed matter)
The Desert Sanatorium of Southern Arizona, Inc. and Institute of Research
Desjardins, Greg T.
Detroit Art Exhibit, A Tribute to the Negro People by Negro and White Artists of America
Detroit Athletic Club
Detroit Institute of Arts
(invitations to exhibit and speak; letter from Kent in support of controversial mural by Diego Rivera; donation of canceled woodblock)
Detroit-Michigan Stove Co.
Detroit Peace Mobilization
Deutsche Akademie der Kunste zu Berlin
Device Clients
(correspondence and a few printed samples of finished products; (see also: Jobs; and clients by name)
Devins, Leo
DeVol, Sally
Dexter, Ernest
M. H. De Young Memorial Museum
Dialog Publications
Dibner, Bern
(correspondence about Carl Zigrosser, and collecting books and prints for Brandeis University Library)
Dickerson, Angie
Dickerson, Anne
"Dickie" [Chase]
(about Frances Kent; Dickie's divorce from Busto; see also: Chase, Jimmie and Busto)
Dickinson, Edward T.
Dick's Refrigeration Service
Diederich, Wanda
Dies Committee
(letters of protest to Representative Dies and secretary of state concerning inaccurate statements about Kent; text of speech "Who Is Un-American?" by Alice Burrows of American League for Peace and Democracy, and of speech "Bill of Duties for the American People" by Congressman Frank Hook; public hearing notices and publicity; newspaper articles, both clippings and typescript copies)
Dinner Forum on "Europe Today,"
Dirlam, Peter
Disarmament Campaign (Women's)
(letters from various groups requesting support and advice)
Discussion Group
(letters to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and local Catholic priest complaining about Catholic pressure for FBI surveillance resulting from Kent's entertaining a group of Soviet students; see also: Greetings to Students; Soviet Students)
Divorce Data
(copies of legal documents for IRS, regarding divorce from Kathleen Whiting Kent)
Dock and Coal Company
Doctors, Dentists, etc.
Dodd, Edward H., Jr.
Dodd, Mead & Company
(correspondence about Kent-illustrated books; design specifications and technical details of printing)
Dodge, Joseph J.
(licenses, pedigrees, stud certificates, customs papers for dogs imported from Denmark; correspondence with kennels and breeders; dog food orders; miscellaneous printer matter; see also: Licenses)
Dombrowski, James
Donellan, Judge George L.
R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company
(correspondence about Kent illustrations, including technical specifications for paper, type, binding, and general design; Weyhe Gallery exhibition of
R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company, cont.
Donnelley, Mr. and Mrs. Thorne
Donovan, Doris
Doremus & Company
(about Kent designs and illustrations for its advertising clients)
Dorrance, Gordon
Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc.
(correspondence about publication of Kent-illustrated books; dummy for advertisement)
Dougherty, Page (Mrs. Frazer Dougherty)
Frederick Douglas[s] Victory Club
Douglas, William O.
Douglass, Maurice A.
Dow & Peterson, Inc. Advertising
(concerning resort advertising and posters; see also: Chamber of Commerce(AuSable, N.Y.))
Dow, Louis F.
Dowling, Mr.
Downes, Olin and Irene
(correspondence about Wallace campaign, peace movement, music and famous musicians, travels; obituary of Olin; correspondence with Irene about her book of Downes's writings)
The Downtown Community School
Doyle, Mr.
Doyle, Sarah
James F. Drake Incorporated
(concerning bookplate commission)
Draper, Muriel
Monroe F. Dreher, Inc.
(bookplate commission; Kent endorsement of drawing pencils)
Dreis, Harry
Drepperd, Carl W.
(regarding Hamilton watch case design; possible painting commission; gift of bookplate)
Du Bois, Guy Pene
The Du Bois Press
(concerning commission for drawings of service academy buildings for use in school yearbooks)
Du Bois, W. E. B.
(correspondence about Kent's travels to the West Indies; postcards from Du Bois in Ghana; see also: Defense Committee for Dr. Du Bois; Peace Information Center)
Duckwall, Fred
Duckwall, Helen
Dudley, George Austin
Duell, Sloan & Pearce, Inc.
(contract; correspondence regarding editing, publication, distribution, and promotion of
Duell, Sloan & Pearce, Inc., cont.
(for political, cultural, and civic associations, many honorary or complimentary)
Dufty, William
Dugan, James
Duggar, Ben (
(correspondence about articles by Kent for publication in the
Dulman, Ruth
Dumont Broadcasting Corporation, WABD 5
Dundee Designs
Durkin, James H.
E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
Duveen, Albert
Dwight, Alice M.
D, Unidentified
(Eddie, 1970; Herbert and Nellie, 1970; Linda, 1970)
Earle, Olive
The East West Gallery of Fine Art (Mildred Taylor)
(shipping and insurance arrangements for exhibition of Kent paintings)
Eastern Airlines Incorporated
Eastman, Ruth Cornell
Eastman, Scott & Company
(correspondence regarding commission for trademark)
Eaton, Cyrus S. and Anne K.
(clippings; letters expressing Kent's admiration of Eaton's work toward building Soviet-American friendship; proposal for a periodical; requests to meet Eaton)
Eaton, Margaret
Eckhardt, Margaret
Eddy, Harriet G.
Edgerton, Marion
Edman, Dr. Irwin
Edmonds, Mrs. Augustus
Edmunds, John
Edwards, Alan
Egbert, Donald Drew
Einstein, Albert
Eiseman, Paul
Eisen, Michela
The Eisenhower Foundation
Eisenzimmer, Ike
Eisler, Hilde and Gerhart
Fred Eldean Organizations Incorporated
Electrolux Corporation
Elliott, John
Ellis, Ethel
Ellis, Fred
Ellis, Dr. Robert H.
Ellison, Jerome
Elman, Mrs. Philip
Elowitz, Gertrude, and Al Moss (see also: Moss, Al, and Gertrude Elowitz)
Elwert, Philip F.
Elwyn, Betty
Elwyn, Frances H.
Embassies
(invitations, correspondence about exhibitions and cultural events)
Embassy of the USSR
(printed matter about art and culture; invitations to participate in conferences; invitations to receptions and social events; Artists for Victory; translations of Kent's books; loans of paintings and prints for exhibitions abroad; travel plans and passport case)
Emergency Civil Liberties Committee
(printed matter; letter of appointment to executive committee; request for medal designed by Kent; discussion of the organization's publications and activities; plans for an art exhibition; Kent's legal costs for passport lawsuit)
Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, cont.
Emergency Committee to Stop Deportations to the Sahara Desert
Emergency Rescue Committee
(requests for assistance, letters of introduction, etc., for artists and writers fleeing Nazi Europe; see also: Heilbut, Ivan)
(correspondence concerning hiring of domestic, farm, and dairy workers; letters of recommendation; taxes; also, letters from former employees with news of their current lives)
Emspeak, Mr.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Endicott, Mary A. and James
Engebretson, Ruth (Mrs. Olaf Engebretson)
Engel, Harry
English Book Shop (Helen Lowry)
(correspondence regarding Kent exhibition, with list of loans; book orders)
Ennis, Col. Arthur I.
(statements of investments)
Erbough, Ralph
Erhardt, Elisabeth
Erickson, R. J.
Erickson, Ruth, and Eleanor Stevenson (see also: Stevenson, Eleanor, and Ruth Erickson)
Ernst, Morris (Greenbaum, Wolf & Ernst)
(concerning legal actions, mainly regarding disputes with publishers)
Ervin, Fred M.
Erwin, James William
(about production of rubber stamps for Kent's air mail peace stamp; Erwin's financial plan for contemporary art purchases; and ideas for collectors' Christmas peace plate)
Esquire
(correspondence about commission for card to accompany Christmas gift subscriptions)
Essex County (N.Y.) Chamber of Commerce
Essex County (N.Y.) Clerk's Office
Essex County (N.Y.) Democratic Committee (see also: Democratic Committee of Essex Co.)
The Essex County Republican
Estey Organ Company
Esto Publishing Company
(concerning booklet on woodcuts by Kent, commissioned as part of its "Enjoy Your Museum" series, with samples of other titles in the series; Kent's text; contract and royalty statements)
Etnier, Stephen
(exhibition catalogs)
European Trip
Euthanasia Society of America, Inc.
Evans, Margaret
Evans, Robert
Evergood, Philip
Eviriti, Luis F.
Ewen, Dr. Sol J.
Ewing, Blaine
Exeter Manufacturing Company
Exhibition Correspondence
(correspondence with museums and dealers concerning details of arrangements for exhibitions, notification of sales, shipping lists, etc., includes shows at: Nebraska Art Association, 1929; Art Association of New Orleans, 1929; Toledo Museum, 1937; Cranbrook Academy, 1938; Wildenstein Galleries, 1942; Carnegie Institute, 1943; Farnsworth Museum, 1950; Moscow Exhibition, 1957; Colby College, 1962; see also: W. S. Budworth & Son)
Exhibition Correspondence, cont.
Exhibitions (Rockwell Kent)
(announcements, invitations, and catalogs for solo exhibitions and group shows)
(exhibition prospecti and entry blanks; announcements, invitations, and catalogs of other artists' shows; also, bulletins and general publications of museums and arts organizations)
(receipts and itineraries)
The Explorers Club
E, Unidentified
(Betty E., 1945; Dee Dee, 1969)
Faber & Faber, Ltd., Publishers (F. V. Horley)
(correspondence about publication of Kent's books in England)
Fabian, Mr.
(canceled checks and account statement)
Fadden, Alfred and Roz
Fagan, Vincent and William Goodwin
(correspondence about ancient Norse ruins in North America; politics and Catholicism)
Fahnestock, Karol
Fairview Association
Family (of Sally [Shirley Johnstone] Kent)
(correspondence with parents and assorted relatives, including: family news, the Kents' trips abroad, and Estate of Aunt Netta [Benetta Johnstone])
Fan Mail
(letters about Kent's art, writings, and politics, with frequent requests for autographs, photographs, and advice, with some replies from Kent; also fan letters from Kent to others in praise of their service, ideas, and work)
Fan Mail, cont.
Fan Mail, cont.
Fan Mail, cont.
(routine correspondence and bills; printed matter from New York Department of Agriculture and agriculture associations; cattle registration)
Farm Research
Farmers' Educational and Cooperative Union of America
(correspondence about political activities and controversy over Iowa leadership)
Farmers' Union of the New York Milk Shed
Farnsworth, Dan
Farnsworth, Kicki (Mrs. Robert P. Farnsworth)
Farrar & Rinehart, Inc.
(concerning commissions for book illustrations and cover designs)
Farrar, John
Farrar, Straus and Company, Incorporated
Farrell, Isabella
Fast, Francis
Fast, Howard
(correspondence about book illustration and promotion of Fast's books; activities of various pacifist organizations)
Fastholm, Jorgen
Faulkner, Barry
Faulkner, Ray
Faulkner, William
(correspondence with biographer about Faulkner)
Faven, Mauri
Fay, Margaret Elsie
Federal Arts Project, Works Progress Administration
(letters to the president and other elected officials urging support of federal fine arts legislation; printed matter of Union of Professional Workers of America; correspondence with Kent outlining strategies for lobbying; see also: WPA Miscellaneous)
Federal Communications Commission
Federal Fine Arts Department
Federal Union
Federal Works Agency, United States Housing Authority
Federal Writers' Project, Works Progress Administration
(correspondence and printed matter; Kent's comments on poor design and printing of some of its projects; see also: WPA Miscellaneous)
Federation for Constitutional Rights
Federation of Jewish Charities
Feek, Isabel (Mrs. Dwight Lyman Feek)
Feild, Robin (Robert)
(correspondence about modernism, and the role of art and the artist in economic and cultural revolution; plans to write a book together, with partial manuscript on their philosophy of art as the expression of human experience; professional intimidation of Feild for his political ideas)
Feild-Kent Manuscript
Fejes, Claire
Fendley, Francis
(letters, drawings, and schoolwork of Spanish foster child; see also: Foster Parents' Plan)
Feuchtwanger, Lion and Harta
Field, Earl
Eugene Field Society
Fifth Amendment Statement and Questionnaire
(account statements and canceled checks)
Fifty Famous American Paintings
(lists of best contemporary American artists, and questionnaire developed by Kent and Carl Zigrosser for Living American Art, Inc.; plan for mail order marketing of reproductions; see also: Living American Art, Inc.)
Fifty Print Show
(correspondence concerning the administrative details of selecting works and writing catalogs for Fifty Prints of the Year exhibitions)
Fight for Freedom, Inc.
Films for Democracy
Findley, Maida
Finkelstein, C.
Finkelstein, Sidney (Vanguard Recording Society)
(correspondence regarding record cover designs, music and musicians; books by Kent, Finkelstein, and Irene Downes; Kent's Moscow exhibition and passport lawsuit; see also: Vanguard Recording Society)
Finkelstein, Sidney (Vanguard Recording Society), cont.
Finney, Kathleen Kent [daughter] and Peter
(family news; divorce and protracted attempts to recover alimony and child support payments; Kathleen's and her mother's health; financial problems and employment; children's schooling; letters and drawings by her children; see also: Kent, Kathleen)
Finnish Hall, Inc.
Fire
(letters of congratulations on Kent's Christmas broadcast; letters of thanks for lithograph given as Christmas gifts)
Fischel, Lillian
Carl Fischer Musical Instrument Co., Inc.
(correspondence and legal documents concerning purchase of federal landbank easements)
Fisk University
(correspondence about gifts of prints and painting to the university; invitation to participate in a seminar on art and music)
FitzGerald, Chuck
Fitzgerald, Gerald
Fitzgerald, James
(correspondence about family, mutual friends, and Kent house on Monhegan; see also: Monhegan)
FitzGerald, Jean
Flannagan, Margharita
Fleming Museum Art Association
Fles, Bartold
Flint, S. L.
The Florida Sportsman
Florsheim, Richard A.
Floyd Bennett Field Murals
(clippings about WPA murals by August Henkel and Eugene Chodorow destroyed because of alleged Communist content, with letters of protest and plans for organizing public demonstrations; see also: "Hate" Mail)
Flynn, Elizabeth Curley
Folensbee, Bradley J., Jr.
Foley, Marion Riggs
Foner, Mrs.
Foner, Philip S.
Forbes, John Ripley
Forbes, Juliette E.
Forbes, Rev. Kenneth Ripley
Ford, Julia Ellsworth
The Ford Foundation
Ford Hall Forum
Ford Motor Company
Foreign Correspondents Dinner-Forum
Foreign Editions of Rockwell Kent Works
(correspondence about copyrights and reproduction permissions)
Foreman, Clark and Mairi
The Forest Preserve Association of New York State
Form Letters
(used by dairy; also, for standard replies to fan mail)
Fort Hamilton High School
Fort Worth Art Center
Fortune
Fossum, Syd and Bunny
Foster, Barbara
(correspondence with and about psychiatric patient boarding with the Kents; manuscript of novel by Foster [ms. not filmed])
Foster, Lillian Fargo
(form letters to participants; receipts for contributions; see also: Alejos, Elidea Pinto; Fernandez, Pablo)
Four Continent Book Corporation
4-H Club
Fowler, Alfred
Fox, Dr. Dixon Ryan
Fractenberg, Harry
Frampton, Mr.
France, Clemens J.
France, Royal W. and Ruth
Frane, Sydney
Frankfort Distilleries, Incorporated
Frantz, Ruth Chappell
Fraternal Outlook
(articles and texts of radio speeches on labor, Ukrainian Folk Festival, economy, and presidential election)
Fraternal Outlook, cont.
Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta (see also: Phi Gamma Delta)
Fredenburgh, Theodore
Free Denmark, Inc.
Free Work
(correspondence about drawings donated to various causes for their publications or fund-raising efforts; see also: Causes; Charities; Contributions; Gifts, Helpees)
Free World Association
Freedman, Ruth
Freedom of the Press Co., Inc.
The Freeman
Freeman, Bernard
Freeman, Fred
Freeman, Harry and Vera
French, George F.
Freuchen, Peter and Magda Peter and Dagmar
(correspondence about Freuchen's and Kent's writings, reviews and translations; Freuchen on trip to the Arctic, USSR, and South America; news of family and mutual friends; biographical notes on Freuchen; Freuchen's experiences in Hollywood and shooting commercial films in Alaska; opening of air routes to Greenland; lecture itineraries; effect of World War II on Denmark; divorce and remarriage, with detailed plans for wedding at Asgaard; national and international politics, including 1948 Wallace campaign and labor movement; helping friends find publishers; clippings and photographs)
Friday, Inc.
Friedman, Arnold
Friel, Edward
(Kent's comments about Friel's article on color theory, with copy of Friel's letter to Arthur U. Pope)
Friel, J. Whiting
Friends of Democracy, Inc.
Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (see also: Abraham Lincoln Brigade)
Friends Service Committee
Friendship House (Union of Soviet Societies for Friendship and Cultural Exchange with Foreign Countries)
(correspondence about exhibition and gift of Kent paintings to the organization; see also: Gift Correspondence; and Kent Collection)
Friendship Societies
Fritchman, Rev. Stephen (First United Methodist Church, Los Angeles, Calif.)
(correspondence about pacifist activities, world politics and their experiences with House Un-American Activities Committee; news of family and mutual friends; donation of Kent prints for church fund raising)
Froelich, Ludwig W.
(correspondence about advertising work with detailed discussion of technical aspects of printing; Kent collectors; publication of Kent portfolio)
(see also: Rationing Correspondence)
Fuess, Claude M.
Fuller, Ann
Fuller, William Allison
The Fund for the Republic, Inc.
Funeral
(see also: Condolence Letters and Sympathy Cards; and Memorial Portfolio)
Funny Letters
Funt, Mrs.
Fur Dressers' and Dyers' Unions
Furlong, Lt. Col. Charles Wellington
Furman, Erwin (The Print Rooms, Los Angeles, Calif.)
(about exhibition and sale of Kent prints and illustrated books; correspondence about pricing; final sales report)
Furtseva, Ekaterina A.
Fyans, Catherine
F, Illegible
(Bill Fro[illegible], 1968)
Gaeth, Arthur
Gahn, Joseph A.
Gaige, Crosby
(correspondence concerning publication of
The Galesburg Civic Art League
The Gallery of Modern Art
Gallery of Modern Masters
(arrangements for exhibition, with correspondence concerning pricing and sales)
Gallery of Modern Masters, cont.
Gallery of the Society of Beaux Arts Architects
Gamble & Co. (T. S. Gamble)
(regarding advertising work)
The Gamut Arts Club
Garber, Frederick W.
(printed matter, orders for seeds)
Gardner, Mary
Garlin, Martha Millet
Garlin, Sender
Garrett, Paul
Garso Family
Gauld, Charles A.
(correspondence about labor conditions and politics in Puerto Rico and South America)
Gay, Evelyn
Gay, Frances Kent [second wife] and Grisha (Gregory)
(correspondence about Frances's health, family, and friends; see also: Kent, Frances; Lee Family)
Gebert, Boleslaw
Geckler, Inge
([contents of file filmed out of sequence, not with target])
Geckler, Martha and Alex
(correspondence about world politics, labor movement, and family news)
Gelders, Joseph S.
(concerning Gelders' campaign for election to the Alabama state legislature)
Gellert, Hugo
Gellert, Lawrence
Gem Specialty Co.
General Electric Company
(about gifts of cigarettes and radio for Greenland trip; commission to illustrate company calendars)
General Electric Company Mural
(correspondence concerning the commission and execution of a mural for GE building in 1939 World's Fair; cost estimates, publicity, contracts)
George, Mike
George Washington Carver School
Georgetown Graphics Gallery
Geppert, O. E.
Gerard, Sanford (Jerry)
(correspondence concerning advertising illustrations; economics and politics; see also: Benton & Bowles, Inc.)
Gerdy, Viola
German-American Emergency Conference
German Peace Committee
Gerner, Olive (Mrs. Morris I. Gerner)
Gero, Ed (North End Tavern Mural, etc.)
(about mural for Plattsburgh, N.Y., tavern by Arto Monaco, supervised by Kent; subsequent controversy over payment and authorship)
Gesslein, Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Get-Well Cards
Giblin, Jane
Gibson, Douglas Wood
Gibson, Earl
Gibson, Edith
Gift Correspondence
(concerning Kent Collection exhibition and presentation of paintings; also, Russian edition of
Gift Fan Mail (Vietnam)
(letters of tribute and appreciation for donating Lenin Peace Prize money to National Liberation Front of South Vietnam; see also: Lenin Peace Prize)
Gifts, Helpees, etc.
(correspondence with individuals and institutions in answer to requests for financial support; see also: Appeals; Causes; Charities; Contributions; Free Work; and organizations by name)
Gill, Richard
Gillen, Ted
Gillmor, Daniel S.
Gilmore, Eddy
Gilpatric, Camille and Mima
(includes Kent's advice on Mima's problems and education, politics, and news of mutual friends)
Enrico Glicenstein Memorial Committee
Glicenstein, Romano
(correspondence with Glicenstein family, Lynd Ward, and Paul Manship regarding plans for publication of a book about Enrico Glicenstein and an exhibition of his sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art; text of introduction and biographical essay by Kent)
Glidden, N.
Glintenkamp, Mr. and Mrs. Chinnie
Glory Halleluja
(letters of thanks for Kent's Christmas print)
Godecki, Capt.
Gold, Fay
Goldberg, Dr. Bernard I.
Goldblum, Sunny (see also: Greenberg, Sunny and George)
Goldburg, Rabbi Robert E.
The Golden Rule Foundation
Goldman, Chaplain Albert A.
Goldman, Marcus I.
Goldstein, A.
Goldstein, Ben
Goldway, Tillie
Golterman, Guy
Gomme, Laurence
Good, Estrid (see also: Bannister, Estrid)
Good Housekeeping
Goode, S. Katherine
Goodnews Bay Mining Co.
Goodwin, Mary Nash
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Inc.
(correspondence about advertising work)
Gordon, Douglas H.
Gordon, Helen and Bill
Gordon, Jesse
(correspondence about passport lawsuit and appearance before House Un-American Activities Committee; loan of money and art to Hugo Gellert that Kent had difficulty collecting; public relations services, and arrangements for radio and TV interviews; news releases; family news)
Gordon, Kicki
Gordon, Dr. Leonard I. and Selma
Gordon, Sara
Gorman, John C.
Gorton, John and Katie
Gtte, Irmgard
Gottlieb, Bernard L.
Gottlieb, Harry
Gould, Aubrey
Gould, Carl Frelinghausen
Gould, Dorothy (Mrs. Carl Frelinghausen Gould)
Government Agencies
(correspondence about visual propaganda; artists as an untapped resource for the war effort; lack of respect and poor pay for artists; Kent posters)
Gowman, Owen Lau
(Rockwell Kent bibliography)
(correspondence concerning orders and payments for cattle feed sold by Kent)
The Gramophone Shop, Inc.
Grand Central Art Galleries
Granetts, Lillian
Grant, Julia C. L.
Gray, Alberta
Gray, Helen (Mrs. Alan Gray)
Gray, Walter
G. R. D. Studio
(letter and brochure about Kimon Nicolaides)
Greater New York Industrial Union Council
Green Mountain Festival of the Arts
Green, Richard G.
Greenberg, May (see also: Shongood, May and Joe)
Greenberg, Sunny and George (see also: Goldblum, Sunny)
Greenberg, Sunny and George (see also: Goldblum, Sunny), cont.
Greene, Andrew Ponder
Greene, W. E.
Grenfell Association
(correspondence about designng a Christmas card with Eskimo text)
Greenland
(correspondence with Arthur Allen (owner of boat
Greenland Friends
(news from friends; correspondence about government, political developments, and American soldiers (including Kent's son) stationed in Greenland)
Greenland Journal
Greenland Press (Manuel and Gertrude Greenwald)
(about design, production, and distribution of Kent bookplates; politics, Council for Soviet-American Friendship, organized labor, World War II; news of family and mutual friends [portion dated 1945-1950 filmed out of sequence]; see also: Greenwald, Manuel and Gertrude)
Greenland Stamp
(correspondence with collectors about unofficial stamp designed and printed by Kent in 1932; sample stamps; articles about the stamp)
Greensweight, Mildred
Greenwald, Manuel and Gertrude
(correspondence about family and friends, Kent peace stamp; see also: Greenland Press)
Greenwald, Michael Rockwell
(bank statement)
Greetings to Students
(letters to Russian students visiting the Kents for Christmas, 1942, and correspondence about the event; see also: Soviet Students)
Greetings to Students, cont.
Greig, Jim
Grey, Donald
(about management of Cleveland Print Club; commission to produce "print-of-the-month"; trial proof of Kaliman Kubinye print annotated with detailed instructions for preparing a "stylotint")
The Greystone Corporation
(concerning arrangements to reproduce Kent illustrations in
Grivin, Adolphe
(correspondence about fabric design)
The Grolier Club
Groner, Duncan Goldthwaite
Gropper, William
(correspondence about artists in the war effort; Gropper's nomination of Kent for Ford Foundation fellowship; letter of protest to Franklin Watkins, chairman of the selection committee, concerning boycott of Kent's and Gropper's work in 1959 U.S. National Exhibition in Moscow)
Grose, Eleanor
Grossett & Dunlap, Inc.
Grubin, Maurice
Gruening, Senator Ernest
(canceled checks, statements, and correspondence about accounts)
The Guardian
Guarnaccia, Jean
Guarnaccia, Shirley and David, Jr.
Guatemala
Guggenheim Fellowship (John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation)
(printed matter and letters of recommendation and evaluation for candidates: Norman Barr, Hans Bendix, Richard Brough, Elmer W. Brown, Byron Browne, Syd Fossum, Edward Friel, Sender Garlin, Dorothy F. Gould, Victoria Huntley, Eugene Konecky, Joseph Le Bopit, Harry Mayerovitch, Morris Neuwirth, Ladislas Segy, Ernst Trubach, Warsager and Velonis, Fred Willis, Sol Wilson, Taro Yashima)
The Guild Artists Bureau, Inc.
D. Gumbiner, Inc.
Edward Gusakov, Inc.
Gustafson, Inez and Don
Gwathmey, Robert
Gyldendalske, Boghandel
Haase, Rudy
Haber, Bill
Haber, Joe
(includes Kent correspondence with Charles Keller, Philip Evergood, and Lynd Ward about raising funds to aid Haber, an indigent handicapped artist; politics)
Hackensack Hospital Association
Hagan, Father Paul M.
Hagedorn, Mr.
Hague, Dr. Eliott B.
Hahn, Bill and Anne
Haig, Quentin
Hair Beauty Information Bureau
Haise, John D.
Haitian Friends
Halcyon House
Haliczer, B.
Hall, Fred J.
Hall, Joan and Ted
Hall, Rob and Micky
(correspondence about
Halla, Frederick A.
Halle, Kay
Halle, Roger
Hallenbeck's Old Book Shop
Hallenberg, Mary
Hallinan, Vincent
Halpin, Leonard M.
Hamilton, Nancy
Hamilton, Nora
Hamlin, Marston
Hammerskjold, Dag
Hammon, Barbara
Hancher, M.
Handwriting Analyses, R.K.
(correspondence with graphologists concerning analysis of the handwriting of Kent and his father; see also: Perl, Dr. William R.)
Hanson, Earl and Charlotte
(about Puerto Rico, with text of article by Hanson on the subject; House Un-American Activities Committee)
Harbor Gallery
Harcave, Mrs. R.
([poor contrast due to smoke damage makes text illegible])
Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc.
(correspondence concerning Kent-illustrated books; design, production, and promotion of
Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc., cont.
Hard, Walter
Harding, Dorothy Sturgis
Harding, Nancy Pomeroy
Hardoff, Y.
Hardy, Dean
Hardy, Marian
Hargrave, W. H.
Harlem Victory Council
Harlow, Keppel & Co., Inc.
(about exhibitions and sales of Kent prints; see also: Keppel, David)
Harper's Bazaar
Harper's Magazine
Harrington, Judge Charles M.
Harrington, Jeremiah F.
Harrington, R.
Harris, Dr. and Mrs. Harold J.
Joseph Harris Co.
Harris, Ray Baker
Harris, Sally
Hart, Leo
(correspondence concerning illustrations for
Hart, Linda
Hart, Virginia C.
Hartley, Marsden
(letters about Hartley's life in Paris, modern art in France and Germany, spirituality, Gertrude Stein, Matisse, Picasso, and color, and urging Kent to bring his family to Europe for a year or two)
Hartman, Ralph
Hartman, Ruth
The Harvard Hound and Horn
(concerning commission for cover design)
Harvard University Press
Harvey, Earl J.
Harvey, John
Haskell, Douglas
Haskell, Rosemary
Hastings House, Inc.
Hatch, Louise
Hatch, Richard
"Hate" Mail
(regarding Kent's political beliefs and activities; see also: Floyd Bennett Field Murals; Murder; and Nuts)
Hathaway, Marion
Hawley, Peter
Hayden, Sterling
Haydon, Harold
Hays, Lee
(correspondence about the labor movement, Hays's songwriting and performances, People's Songs, Inc.; see also: Peoples' Songs, Inc.
Radical Groups--Sharecroppers)
Health Officer, Town of Jay
Hearn's Liquor Store
Heath, Ogden
(correspondence about a painting loaned and eventually recalled for sale)
Heath, Ogden, cont.
Heavy, Heavy Hangs over Thy Head
(letters of thanks for Kent's 1946 Christmas lithograph; requests for photos of the print)
Hechenbleikner, Louis
Hecht, Dr. Alfred J.
Heeney, Rev. Harry R.
Heifetz, Harold
Heilbut, Ivan
(correspondence about attempts to assist refugee writer in finding publishers for his novel and plays; see also: American Guild for German Cultural Freedom; Emergency Rescue Committee)
Heiman, Beatrice
Heiman, Grace
Heineman, Heinz
Heinze, W. P.
Helck, Peter
Heller, Bob and Jeannie
(correspondence about Heller's and Kent's writings; family and mutual friends; armed forces radio and films; politics, and Kent's statement on how McCarthyism affected his own career, for a book by Heller; plans for the Kent Collection; passport lawsuit and
Hellman, Lillian
The Hemisphere Corporation
Henderson, Keith and Lelia
Henner, Edna and Hi
Henri, Robert
(includes notice of Henri School of Art "Stupendous Costume Ball" and melodrama,
Herber, S.
Herberts, Mrs.
The Heritage Press
Herman, Beatrice
Herndon, Angelo
Hester, General Hugh B.
Hewston, Mrs.
Hickey, Francis P.
Hicks, Granville
Frances Higgins vs. William Higgins
(divorce decree of Frances Lee [Kent], second wife)
Higgins, Thomas
Higgins, Tom
Highlander Folk School
Highroad
Hill, Maude C.
Hilton Hotel
Hines, Duncan
Hinrichs, Hans
(correspondence concerning purchases and loans of paintings; commissions to write and illustrate a centennial history of Rahr Malting Co., and design trademark, bookplates, and Christmas card; see also: Rahr, Guido; and
Hinrichs, Hans, cont.
Hinsdell, Oliver
Hirschl & Adler
Hiscock, J. W.
History of Manitowoc Co. [Wisc.?] Rahr Family (see also: Hinrichs, Hans; Rahr, Guido; and
Hoar, Frank
Hoard, Prescott
Hobart, Alice Tisdale
Hoberg, John
Hodges, Figgis & Co.
Hodgins, Eleanor Tracy
Hoffman, Charles G.
Hoffman, Stanford E.
Hoffman, William W.
Hogarth, Paul
Hoggson, Donald
Hoggson, Ella
Henry Holt and Company, Inc., Publishers
HoltenMoeller, Hugo
(utilities for Asgaard Farm)
Homar, Larry
Hoogstraten, W. N.
Hope, Bob
Horace Mann School
(about purchase of horses, training, maintenance, and equipment)
Horton, H. Leavitt
Horvath, Mr.
Horwitt, Nathan George
Hotel Bristol
Hotel Drake
Hotel Lexington
Hotel Piccadilly
Hotel Vanderbilt
Houghton Mifflin Company
(correspondence concerning book illustration)
The Hour Publishers
Hourwich, Rebecca
(correspondence about plans for
House
(correspondence and invoices relating to routine maintenance, supplies, equipment, and improvements; also, warranties and printed matter concerning purchases)
House, cont.
House, Virginia Lou
Housinau, Howard and Marie
E. T. Howard Company (Art Reference Bureau)
(concerning commissions for illustrations and magazine covers)
Howard, Francis Nunan
Howell, Ferdinand
Howell, Jack and Kay
Hoxsey, Dean C.
Hoxsey, Lowell and Ella
Huberman, Leo
Hubert, Anne and Ed
Hudowalski, Grace
Hughes, Charles C.
(regarding purchase of a print; also, poem about Kent by Hughes)
Human Engineering Laboratory
William Hunrath Co., Inc.
Hurd, Clem
Hurd, Edith
Hurok, Sol
Hurst, Edna M.
Huson, Gordon
Hutchins, Robert
(includes correspondence about Kent's passport lawsuit)
Hutchins, Mrs.
([too dark to be legible])
Hutson [Huntley], Victoria
(correspondence about Hutson's lecture on Kent, and letters of recommendation)
(statements, receipts, and orders to purchase and sell stock)
Hyde, Lawrence and Bettye
(about publication and distribution of
H, Unidentified and Illegible 1945-1969
(Faye, 1968-1969; Halfdan H., 1964; Jane M. H., 1957; Jessica Hei[?], 1945)
Iannelli, Alfonso
Imported Publications & Products
In Fact
Incorporation
Independent Citizens' Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions, Inc.
(bylaws, meeting announcements, and invitations to speak)
Independent Voters' Committee of the Arts and Sciences for Roosevelt
Indian Hill
(correspondence about summer music camp planned by Mordecai Bauman)
Indonesian Veterans Group of the U.S. Armed Forces
Information Bureau of the Soviet Union
(correspondence concerning exhibition, speaking engagement, politics, Soviet-American friendship, fund raising for Russian war relief, news of mutual friends; miscellaneous printed matter; see also: Kon, Louis)
Information Please
Inquiries
Institute for Cultural Exchange thru Photography
Institute of American Sporting Art, Inc.
Institute of Life Insurance
Institute of Soviet-American Relations
Institution for the Chinese Blind
([target incorrectly reads: Institute for the chinese Blind])
Inter-American Cultural Relations
International Committee for Political Prisoners
International Institute for Peace
(mainly form letters)
International Institute of Arts and Letters
(invitation to submit application; membership certificate)
International Labor Defense
(inquiries about cover designs, invitations to serve on committee, correspondence about article by Kent for its newsletter; reports, minutes, and other printed matter)
The International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union
International Lyceum Association
International Publishers
International Rescue and Relief Committee
International Student Service of the United States
International Study Center
International Workers Order
(correspondence concerning Kent's lecture tours, appointments to committees, promotion of
International Workers Order, cont.
International Workers Order, cont.
Interviews
(transcript of Paul Cummings interview of Kent for the Archives of American Art; questions for Florence Lehmann interview of Kent; transcript of unidentified interview)
Introductions
Inverarity, Bruce
Investors League, Inc.
Invitation Lists
(lists and letters of acceptance/regret for cocktail party honoring Aaron Douglas, January 1939; cocktail party for unveiling of Kent mural, April 1939; Farmers for Wallace picnic, summer 1943)
Irish Letters
(from friends in Ireland)
Irish Parcels Exporters & Importers
Irwin, Rose (see also: Sweeties)
Isaacs, Stanley M.
It's Me, O Lord!
(reviews and publicity; see also: Autobiography)
Ives, Burl
Ivy College
Jackson, Ian
Jackson, J. O.
Jackson, W. E.
Arthur Jaffe Heliochrome Company
Jahn, Anna and Otto
James, Alexander and Family
(correspondence about Kent's writings, Danny's school problems and adventures in the merchant marine, Kent and James exhibitions, news of family and farming)
Jamieson, Margaret
(fan letters, and correspondence about Kent's books, politics, social issues, peace movement, and McCarthyism)
Jamieson, Margaret, cont.
The Japanese-American Mirror
Jay Taxpayers' Association (R.K., Chairman)
(brochure)
Jefferson School
Jencks, Clinton and Virginia
(correspondence about Clinton Jencks's case and appeal to Supreme Court; clippings)
Jenofsky, Abraham
Georg Jensen, Inc.
(about silver and jewelry design)
Jerome, V. J. (Jerry) and Alice
(correspondence about politics, Browder case, antifascist youth magazine)
(concerning herd requirements for marketing dairy products under the Jersey Creamline trademark)
Jessup, Mrs. William
Jewish Peoples Committee
Jewish People's Fraternal Order
The Jewish Survey
Jewish War Veterans
Jobs
(correspondence with clients; invoices, and miscellaneous printed matter concerning illustration, advertising work, trademarks, etc.; see also: Bookplate Clients; Device Clients; and clients by name)
Jobs, cont.
Jobs Not Completed
The Johnny Appleseed Bookshop
Johnson, Albin E. (Jack)
Johnson, Mrs. Arnold
Johnson, Barbara (Mrs. J. Seward Johnson, Jr.)
Johnson, Charlotte
Johnson, Crockett
Johnson, Dr.
Johnson, Oakley C.
Johnson O'Connor Research Foundation Incorporated and Human Engineering Laboratory
S. C. Johnson & Son [Johnson's Wax] Stock Certificate (E. Willis Jones)
(correspondence, invoice, and two drawings)
Johnson, William M.
Johnstone, Shirley (see also: Kent, Sally)
(letter inquiring about secretarial position; letters from friends and relatives; target omitted)
Johnstone, Shirley (see also Kent, Sally)
(previously sealed correspondence with Kent regarding plans to travel to Plattsburg to assume her new position as his secretary, and personal letters)
Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee
Joint Committee to Defend WPA Workers
Jones, Caroline Merrick
Jones, Dan Burne and Jacquie
(correspondence with Kent collector about: illustrated books and collecting, Jones's Kent bibliography, news of family and mutual friends, purchase of paintings and prints, decoration of Jones's home with Kent fabrics, discussion of Rockwell Kent Foundation, reviews of
Jones, Dan Burne and Jacquie, cont.
Jones, J. A.
Jones, John
Jones, Louis C.
Jones, Louise Seymour
Jones, Mrs. Newton
Jones, Ruth and E. Willis
Josefsson, Mr. and Mrs. Johannes
Josephson, Neil D.
(correspondence about polar explorations and Kent's Greenland stamp)
Josephy, Robert
Joslin, Peter
Joyce, Elaine and Martin
Peter A. Juley & Son
The Junior League of the City of New York, Inc.
Junior Philatelic Americans
Jury Duty, Essex Co., N.Y.
Justamon, Monique
Justice Department
(books, politics, social issues, peace movement, and McCarthyism)
Kahn, Albert E. and Rietta
(correspondence about: World Congress for Peace, national and international politics, Kahn's writings and passport case, International Workers Order insurance problems, peace movement, news of problems, peace movement, news of family and friends, Rietta's "Mistone" garden sculpture business, trips to the USSR, and Kent gift of paintings to Friendship House; manuscripts of Kahn articles; clippings)
Kahn, Albert E. and Rietta, cont.
Kahn, Arthur
Kahn, Edith (Mrs. Mortiz Kahn)
Kaplow, Alicia
Kapp, Herman W.
Kappa Pi Honorary Fraternity
Kapustin, Razel
Katcher, Stanley A.
Kautt, Alfhid
Kayden, Eugene M.
Kazay, John J.
Keenan, Lawrence
Keene Valley Hospital
Keep America out of War Congress
Keeseville Bakery
([too dark to be legible])
Keller, Charles
(correspondence about Keller's work, and family news; invitations to exhibitions)
Kellogg, Ray S.
Kelly, Gerald
Kelly, Tim
Kelsey, Leroy C.
Kelsey, Mary
(Easter postcard; correspondence regarding purchase of house on Monhegan Island, Maine)
Kelsey, R.
Kenerdine, Blanche
Kennedy, Anne Reid
Kennedy, Jocelyn Pierson [cousin]
Kent, H. J.
Kent, Norman
Percy Kent Bag Co., Inc.
Kent, Richard T.
Kent, Sherman
Kent Collection
(transcript of VOKS Section of Fine Arts (Moscow) opinions of Kent's paintings, checklist with prices; letters of appreciation and commendation from Soviet citizens and officials for Kent exhibition and gift of paintings; see also: Gift Correspondence; and Friendship House)
Kent, Barbara [daughter]
(correspondence with parents and brother; see also: Carter, Barbara Kent and Alan)
Kent, Clara [daughter]
(correspondence about school, employment, etc.; see also: Pearce, Cap and Clara Kent)
Kent, Clara [daughter], cont.
Kent, Dorothy [sister]
(family news)
Kent, Douglas [brother]
(about financial matters and health)
Kent, Frances [second wife]
(mainly love letters, some of which are illustrated; also, correspondence about family and travels; a few letters from friends and mother-in-law; notebook with Eskimo translations; see also: Gay, Frances and Grisha;
Kent, Frances [second wife], cont.
Kent, Frances [second wife] (see also: Gay, Frances and Grisha)
(previously sealed love letters and letters about daily events written to Rockwell while he was on lecture tours, during Frances's extended visits to Arizona, and after their divorce; some are illustrated)
Kent, Frances (Mrs. Percy Kent) [aunt]
(correspondence about Kent genealogy, Kent painting she owns, and reminiscences of times when Rockwell and Kathleen lived in her house)
Kent, Gordon [son], Phyllis [wife], and Trini [ex-wife]
(childhood memorabilia, including drawings, homework papers, and grade cards, with correspondence about academic work, social activities, and finances; correspondence about Gordon's service in Arctic unit of U.S. Army Air Force during World War II, medal awarded for heroism, an dproblems with commission; correspondence about graduate studies in physics, teaching, political activities in Progressive Party, divorce and remarriage; correspondence with Trini, Gordon's first wife, concerning her medical problems and employment; news of family and friends)
Kent, Gordon [son], Phyllis [wife], and Trini [ex-wife], cont.
Kent, Kathleen W. [first wife]
(letters of congratulations from relatives and friends on engagement and marriage; correspondence with husband, mainly love letters, with reports of daily activities and news of relatives, some illustrated; marital problems, family news, Kent's painting progress and employment as a draftsman and in advertising; trips to Alaska, Newfoundland, and South America; divorce and finances; see also: Divorce Data)
Kent, Kathleen W. [first wife], cont.
Kent, Kathleen W. [first wife], cont.
Kent, Kathleen [daughter]
(correspondence with parents, including childhood drawings and samples of schoolwork, about: school, finances, housing and employment in New York City, and family news; see also: Finney, Kathleen Kent and Peter; Mannes, David and Marya)
Kent, Natasha (Tasha) [granddaughter]
(correspondence about her desire to study in the USSR, and inquiries on her behalf; arrangements for Tasha to study in England)
Kent, Natasha (Tasha) [granddaughter], cont.
Kent, Richard (Dick) [stepson] and Claire
(correspondence about school, with homework papers and drawings, family news, and about Dick's experiences in the army and marital problems)
Kent, Rockwell, III [son]
(correspondence with parents, including letters from boyhood bicycle trip between Connecticut and Cuba, about: school, finances, farm failure and debts to father, remarriage and family news; a few letters from his children; see also: Overton, Walter)
Kent, Sally (Shirley Johnstone) [third wife]
(legal papers and correspondence concerning U.S. citizenship; correspondence with Johnstone family; see also: Family; and Johnstone, Shirley)
Kent, Sally (Shirley Johnstone) [third wife], cont.
Kent, Sally (Shirley Johnstone, third wife; see also Johnstone, Shirley)
(previously sealed correspondence with Rockwell includes love letters, news of business and personal activities)
Kent, Sally (Shirley Johnstone, third wife; see also Johnstone, Shirley), continued
Kent, Sarah Holgate [mother]
(correspondence about family, friends, and financial matters, with letters from Anne Avery (companion) reporting on health; letters of condolence upon the death of Sarah H. Kent; see also: Avery, Anne)
Kent, Sarah Holgate, Estate of (see also: United States Trust Company of New York)
Kent, Susan [granddaughter]
(correspondence, mainly concerning repayment of a loan)
Kent, unidentified
(letters from unidentified relatives, mainly children; also, genealogical notes)
Keppel, David (Harlow, Keppel & Co., Inc.)
(correspondence concerning prints consigned for sale; see also: Harlow, Keppel & Co., Inc.)
Kerlan, Dr. Irvin
Kerr, Howard M.
Ketchum, MacLeoud & Grove, Inc.
Keyser, Sherwood
Keyser, Susan
Khrushchev, Nikita
John G. Kidd & Son, Inc.
Kilburn, Clarence E.
(letters to Kilburn and newspaper editors about the congressman's voting record)
King, Dr. Harold G.
King, Mertie Johnson
King, Sally (Mrs. Tom C. King)
Kingman, Dong
Kingsbury, John and Mabel
(transcripts of speech and statement by Kingsbury concerning National Council of American-Soviet Friendship; correspondence concerning visit to Asgaard and about sponsoring Freedom to Travel Exhibition; book reviews)
Kingsport Press, Inc.
Kipnis, Samuel
Kipnis, Samuel, cont.
Kirchner, Ken
Kislova, Lydia
Kitterell, James E.
Kittredge, William A.
Kiwanis Club of Montreal, Incorporated
Kleeman, Beatrice L.
Klein, Harold
Klitgaard, Kaj and Georgina
(correspondence about book Klitgaard wants to publish, requests for Guggenheim Fellowship recommendation; 5 illustrations [by Kaj?] and announcement and checklist for Georgina's exhibition)
Knight, Ray
M. Knoedler & Co.
Alfred A. Knopf
Know and Defend America Exhibition
(clippings)
Knox College
Knox, Edwin R., Jr.
Koenigsberg, Samuel M.
Koerner, Arthur A. J.
Koerner, Dan
Kohn, Walter F.
Kon, Louis
(correspondence about Russian translation of
Konecky, Gene
(correspondence regarding Konecky's grievances against United Office and Professional Workers of America and Kent's attempts to help him find a new job)
Kosinski, Peter
KPFA, Berkeley, Calif.
Krapp, George Philip
Krenov, Julia
Kronovet, Dr. Milton
Kruttschnitt, Dorothy Pell (Mrs. Theodore H. Kruttschnitt)
Kuchler, Ruth and Al
(correspondence about farmers' union, politics, mutual friends, and New York milk strike)
Kuehne, Max
Kughler, Charlotte Livingston
Kunderd, A. E.
Kwiat, Joseph J.
K, Unidentified
(Gladys R. K., 1945)
Labor Advertising
(correspondence with advertising agency about influencing public opinion in favor of organized labor)
Labor Committee on Oklahoma Syndicalism Cases (see also: Oklahoma Committee to Defend Political Prisoners)
Labor Research Association
Labor Youth Federation
Laboratory of Anthropology
Lacy, Mrs.
Ladies' Auxiliary, Mount Sinai Hospital
Ladies Home Journal
([illegible due to poor contrast])
LaFarge, Isabel
LaFarge, Oliver
Lake Champlain Associates
Lake George Protective Assoc., Inc.
Lake Placid Chamber of Commerce
Lake Placid Club
Lakeview High School
Lamb, Conselo Lee
Lambrecht, Irene
Lamont, Corliss
(correspondence about civil liberties, Bill of Rights Fund, politics, news of mutual friends, Lamont's passport case and campaign for Senate; transcript of Mike Wallace interview of Lamont; news releases, clippings, and campaign literature)
LaMore, Chet
Lamp and Pottery Shop
Landish, Vicki
Landry, Annett
Lane, Myles
Lang, Douglas F.
Langdon, Rev. David S.
Lanier Centennial Committee
Lankes, J. J.
Lannon, Al and Elva
Larcada Gallery
(correspondence and financial statements concerning sales, consignments, exhibitions, and estate appraisal)
Larcada Gallery, cont.
(correspondence, price lists, dealers' bulletins, receipts, invoices, and miscellaneous printed matter concerning livestock feed distributorship run by Kent)
Larsen, Erling
Larsen, Rudy
La Salle, Countess Julie de
Lash's Art Shoppe
Lashua and McKinley
Latch, Elias
Lathrop, Milo
Latin America Refugee Fund, Inc.
Latourelle, Noah
Lattimore Defense Fund
Laufman, Dudley and Cyndi
Laurita, Ray
Law, Stanley
Lawrence, Marjorie
Lawrence, Martin
Lawson, Elizabeth
Lawson, Harold
(correspondence about mutual friends, Kent's trip to the USSR, politics, and Canadian periodicals)
Lawson, Sue (Mrs. John Howard Lawson)
Lawyer's Committee on American Policy Towards Vietnam
Lazard, Naomi
Lazarnick, George
Leach, Henry Goddard
Leader, Herbert
League for Mutual Aid
League of American Artists, Inc.
League of American Writers, Inc.
(form letters, printed matter about annual meetings, and transcript of Kent address)
Leary, Rose Foley
Lease, 158 East 56th St.
Lecture Bureaus (Miscellaneous)
(correspondence about management of Kent's lectures; see also: Columbia Lecture Bureau; W. Colston Leigh, Inc.; and Speaking Engagements)
Lecture References
(solicited and unsolicited letters of endorsement; clippings and news releases)
Lecture Trips
(correspondence and schedules)
Ledger
(record of contributions and expenses for Kent's congressional election campaign; see also: Campaign, 1946; and Campaign, 1948)
Lee, Cuthbert
Lee Family
(letters to Frances Kent from her mother concerning family news; genealogical correspondence; obituary of relative, and letters from attorneys regarding estate settlement; photo of horse and blueprint plans of family headstones; see also: Gay, Francis and Grisha (Gregory); Kent, Frances; and Milestone, Kendall)
Lee, Pat
Lee, Richard L.
Leech, Mrs.
Leeds, Kitty
(contrast too poor for legibility)
Lefferts, Betty and George
Al Paul Lefton Company, Inc.
(correspondence about advertising work)
Legge, Christopher A.
Legier Bros.
Lehman, Herbert H.
Lehman, Max and Lola
Leica Camera, Pictures, etc.
Ben Leider Memorial Fund
([filmed twice])
W. Colston Leigh, Inc.
(itineraries, contracts, and arrangements for lecture tours; see also: Lecture Bureaus (Miscellaneous))
W. Colston Leigh, Inc., cont.
Leitenberg, Milton
E. Leitz, Inc.
(correspondence concerning Leica exhibition)
Lembcke, R.
Lendt, Elaine and Lee
Lenin Peace Prize (see also: Gift Fan Mail (Vietnam))
Lentheric, Incorporated
(correspondence about advertising commissions, with samples of designs and brochure)
Lerandeau, Moira (Mrs. Alfred J. Lerandeau)
Leslie, Robert L.
Sol Lesser Productions, Inc.
Leuba, Walter
Lev, Ray
Levinson, Mr.
Levinson, Ruth Keller
Levitch, Leon
Levy, Isabelle
Lewin Sandblasting Corp.
Lewis, John L.
Lewis, Leland
Lewis, Mary C. (Mrs. Edward S. Lewis)
Lewis, R. J., Jr.
Lewis, Richard and Mary
Lewis, Richard D.
Lewishon, Walter P.
(correspondence regarding the possibility of making a movie from Kent's Greenland adventures and writings)
Liang-Mo, Liu
Libby, Lee Richards (Mrs. E. S. Libby)
Liberty Book Club, Inc.
The Library for Intercultural Studies, Inc.
Library of Congress
(copyright registrations)
(driver, pilot, dog licenses; also car registrations; see also: Dogs)
Lieb, Ruth
Life
Lightbody, Charles and Georgia
(correspondence about Lightbody's dismissal from faculty of St. Lawrence University, politics, and family news; see also: "The Subversives" (Notes); and Whitman, Georgia)
(installation estimates)
Liljeholm, Eric
Lilly, Ralph J.
Limbach, Russell T.
The Limited Editions Club (see also: Macy, George)
The Lincoln Electric Company
Linden, Morris
(correspondence, including reminiscences of Greenland, information about Rumania, politics, news of family and friends, Tasha Kent's studies in London)
Linder, Alexander
Lindey, Ella and Alex
Link, Eugene P.
Lippa & Co.
J. B. Lippincott Company
Literary Guild of America, Incorporated
(arrangements for issuing
Literary Guild of America, Incorporated, cont.
Littel, C.G.
The Little Louvre
Liveright, Horace
(correspondence about Kent's writing an introduction to Peter Freuchen's book)
Living American Art, Inc. (Chas. Boni)
(correspondence about marketing art reproductions; contract; see also: Fifty Famous American Paintings; and Silk Screen Group)
Loan Exhibits
(arrangements for loans of Kent paintings and prints to exhibitions at museums, commercial galleries, and community centers; also, some lists of prints on consignment; see also: Exhibitions)
Loans
(correspondence concerning repayment of money borrowed from Kent)
Lobo, Arthur
Lochner, Louis P.
Lockwood, Mrs. Floyd
Loewe, Fritz
Lomax, Alan
Lomen, Ralph
(correspondence about pardon for two Nunivak Island Eskimos in Alaska penitentiary)
Lomoff, Anna
London, Jack
Longwell, Daniel
Longyear, Robert Dudley, American Consul, Munich, Germany
Loomis, John S.
deLopateck, Eugene
Lorch, Hewlett and Tallant Architects
Lord, Pauline
Lorenz, Charles
Los Angeles Historical Society
Lotsman, G. B.
Louisiana State University
Lovett, Robert Morse
Lowell, Robert
Lowenfels, Walter
(poems by Lowenfels, including one to Kent)
Lowenthal, Arthur
Lowenthal, Maxine and Sydney
Lowey, J. W.
Lowrie, Rebecca A.
Lowry, Glenn
Lowry, Philip Wager
(concerning legal matters, including: alimony and child support for Kathleen, automobile accidents, disputes with publishers and printers, and farm business)
Lucas, C. P.
Ludeke, W.
Ludlum, Stuart
Luks, George
Lundenberg, Nellie
Lunning, Frederick
Lunning, Miss
Luscomb, Florence
Lynch, Frederick J.
Lynge, Lars
L, Unidentified
(A. L. L., 1950)
Macbeth Gallery
(correspondence about Kent paintings to be sent to annual exhibitions in Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Chicago, etc.)
Macdonald, Roderick J.
MacDowell, Mrs. Edward
MacIntyre, C. F.
(correspondence regarding MacIntyre's translations of
MacIntyre, C. F., cont.
Mackie, David I.
Mackinnon, Jack and Kay
MacLean's Magazine
MacMartin, Helen
The MacMillan Company Publishers
MacMillan, Nance
(correspondence with Australian friend about politics, peace movement, McCarthyism, family news; manuscript of her play,
Macpherson, Bryher
MacTavish, Duncan K.
Macy, George (The Limited Editions Club)
(arrangements for illustration commissions and speaking engagements; see also: The Limited Editions Club)
Macy, Helen
(monthly statements, correspondence about charge account and purchases)
Madden, Margaret
Maeder, Hans K.
Maetzold, Mary
Magarick, Pat
Magdoff, Sam
Mager, Gus
Magidson, Herbert D.
Mahoney, Patrick
Maicus, Jennie Bill
Maicus, Mr. and Mrs. Paul
(dairy and personal)
Maine Coast Artists
Malkin, Dorothy
Mallery, Otto T.
(correspondence with a fan of Kent's writings; also, correspondence about Mallery's writings on economics)
Maloney, Tom
(correspondence concerning advertising and publicity ideas; judging of photography exhibition, and articles for
Mamedova, Tamara and Enver
(correspondence with Soviet friends (Tamara was Kent's interpreter in the USSR))
Manchester Liners, Ltd.
Mandel, William
Mangel, Bert
Manhattan Storage & Warehouse Co.
(receipts and invoices)
Mannes, David and Marya
(correspondence and report about Kathleen's music studies)
Manning, Danny
Mannix, Martin
Mansfield Theatre
Manship, Paul
Marcantonio, Vito
March of Dimes
(correspondence about redesigning coin collection cards)
Marcus, Ben and Jane
Marcus, Stanley
(about bookplate design)
Marcus Suit
(correspondence and clippings concerning lawsuit by Kent against Chapin Marcus & Co., N. W. Ayer, and Harvard School of Business Administration over 1928 Harvard Advertising Award that did not properly acknowledge him as the artist of the prize-winning ad)
Margolis, Sidney
Marion, George
(correspondence concerning Kent's endorsement of Marion's book)
Marley, Rev. Harold P.
(correspondence about politics and humanism, the activities of the Unitarian Church, and Marley's new career in child guidance)
Marley, Rev. Harold P., cont.
Marlor, Clark S.
The A. N. Marquis Company
Marschik, Konrad and Marion
Marsh, F. D.
Marshall, Furber and Ivia
(correspondence about purchase of prints, social events, and exchanges of gifts)
Marshall, George
Martin, George W.
Marven, Ralph
Marzani, Carl
Mason, Mary Jane
Mason, William H. and Norma
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Peace Council
Masses & Mainstream
Mattsson, Niels
(correspondence on behalf of young Danish horseman whom Kent wished to help enter American racing)
Matusow, Harvey Marshall
Mauerllo, S. Ralph
Maurin, Edward
May Day Committee
Mayakovskya, Maria
Mayer, Dr. Edgar
Joseph Mayer Co., Inc.
Mayer, Nathan
Mayerovich, Harry
Maysles, Albert
(printed circular about Maysles's lectures; rsum)
McCaffrey, Frank
McCarthy Hearing
(prepared statement to press, notes on Fifth Amendment privileges, letters of congratulations from friends and public; clippings about Kent testimony and McCarthyism in general)
McCasland, Jeanette
McCracken, Harold
McCutcheon, J. H.
McDonald, J. N.
McFarlane, John W.
McGaulley, Grace
McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.
McGuire, Harry
McInerney, T. J.
McIntire, Gordon
McIntyre, Robert G.
McIver, J. D.
McKay, Louis D.
McKenzie, Frances C.
McLellan, Hugh
McManus, John T.
McMichael, Jack R., Jr.
McNeilly, John C.
McPherson, J.
McQuillan, Mr.
McVey, William M.
Mead, Dr. Margaret
Medallic Art Co.
(orders to cast medals and requests for price information)
Medichiva, Kaleria
Melish, Rev. William Howard and Mary Jane
Melton, Robert and Elizabeth
(correspondence praising Kent's books from a hand binder interested in binding special editions; request for design suitable for stamping on leather bindings)
Meltzer, Charles Henry
(notes, lists, doodles, fragments of writings, addresses and phone numbers, and some clippings)
Memorial Portfolio
Menihan, John C. and Marge
Mercer, Jack
Merkle, Edward
(letters of reference for former employee)
Merrill, Lewis and Bobbie
(correspondence about United Office and Professional Workers of America, organized labor, politics, social activities, and news of mutual friends)
Merritt, C. C.
Mershaw Publishing Corporation
Meserole, Darwin J.
(typescript of article on fascism in the U.S., and related correspondence)
Metcalf, Kathryn E.
Metropolitan Library Council
Metropolitan Museum of Art
(correspondence about reproduction permission and Kent's displeasure at the manner in which the museum handled requests from publishers; printed matter describing labor union program and letter to director complimenting the program; see also: Burroughs, Bryson)
Metzger, Libby
Mexican Art Workshop
Mexico Trip
Meyer, Dr.
Meyerovitch, Mr.
Meynell, Sir Francis
Michael, Mr.
Middleton, Mary
Middleton, R. Hunter
(correspondence about Bewick blocks printed by Middleton, arrangements for Society of Typographic Arts to issue a Kent print, and book design)
Milestone, Kendall [sister of Frances Kent]
(correspondence with Otto Boehm, manager of Kenstone, the Milestone's farm, about dairy business and finances; family news, and Kent exhibition at Stendahl Galleries; see also: Lee Family)
Milgrom, Sam
(news of mutual friends; see also: International Workers Order)
Milk Strike
(correspondence and printed matter)
Miller, Albina
Miller, Burr
Miller, Elsie Marie
Miller, George C.
(orders for lithographic prints and discussion of technical specifications)
Miller, Kenneth Hayes
(letters about literature, Kent's omission from Armory Show, family news, and comments about sale of Kent painting to Arthur Jerome Eddy)
Miller, Leon Gordon
Miller, Malcolm
Miller, Tom and Helen
Miller's High Life Beer Co.
Millet, Martha
Milton, David
Milwaukee Art Institute
(list of paintings to be forwarded from Art Institute of Chicago for exhibition in Milwaukee, and letter from museum director about insurance and sales commissions)
Minerly, Mr. and Mrs. John P.
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Minnesota Broadcasting Corporation
Minor, Lydia
Moby Dick
(page proofs (4 pp.); correspondence concerning copyrights and reproduction permissions)
(correspondence with stockbroker; receipts for shares traded, and monthly statements)
The Modern School
Moe, Evelyn
Moldovan, Dr. Alfred and Jean
Moller Tryggve Juul
Molyneaux, Jane and Abram
Monaco, Arto C.
(correspondence about starting a career as a cartoonist in Hollywood, beginnings of Screen Cartoon Guild, attempts to find publisher for Louis Monaco's book, Experiences in Army Ordnance Training Unit during World War II, art for propaganda exhibition, Monaco toy business, news of family and friends, problems at Santa's Workshop, Inc.; printed matter, including cartoons for military training, catalogs of Monaco toys, and promotional brochures for Santa Claus Village; see also: Toy Business)
Monaco, Arto C., cont.
Monaco, Jimmy
(letters of recommendation, correspondence with Monaco in Army Air Corps during World War II, with news of family and friends)
Monaco, Louis, Ida, and Levin
(correspondence regarding publication of Monaco's book, farm and restaurant business, letters and cards from Monaco trip to Florida)
Monhegan
(correspondence about repairs, maintenance, and summer rental of cottage, and its subsequent sale; correspondence with island friends, and about murder of Mae See; map and snapshot of the house; see also: Fitzgerald, James; Moran, Sally (Mae See))
Monigotti, Elena
The Montclair Art Museum
(orders for household goods, tools, and clothing)
Monthly Review
(dairy business)
Moody, Howard E. and Clara
Moore, John G.
(fan letters; correspondence about politics, poetry, art, Kent's gift to the USSR, and America's social problems)
Moore, Dr. Merrill
(correspondence with psychiatrist friend about problems of family members; arrangements for having psychiatric patients board and work at Asgaard, with reports on individual cases; plans for Kent Collection; news of Moore's experiences in military during World War II)
Moorhead, Harley G.
Moos, Elizabeth
Moran, Sally (Mae See)
(correspondence, mainly concerning arrangements to move to Kent cottage on Monhegan; a few letters sent by friends and neighbors after Moran's death; newspaper clippings speculating whether the death was murder or suicide; see also: Monhegan; and Sweeties)
Morant, Dick
Morant, Willie and Nick
Moreau, John
Morford, Rev. Richard A. and Aileen
Morgan, Ernst
Morhouse, Margo
Mories, Fred G.
(mainly about social engagements; letter about plans to open an art school in Paris with Henry Davenport, and a comment about Ernest Lawson, who occupied the studio downstairs)
Morningstar, Percy
Morphy, Katherine M.
Morris, William
(correspondence about proposed broadcasts from Greenland, publication of pamphlet, and series of articles on Greenland by Kent for
Morrison, Aileen
Morrison, Anne
Morse, Alexander B.
Mortello, Domenico
Morton, Mr.
Moscow News
Moses, Theo. W.
Moss, Al, and Gertrude Elowitz (see also: Elowitz, Gertrude, and Al Moss)
Motive
Motor Boating
Mount Holyoke College
Mount Royal Hotel
Mowat, Farley
Muller, Charles
Mumford, Lewis
The Municipal Broadcasting Station (WNYC)
Murayev, Dmitri
(correspondence with Soviet cultural attach, mainly concerning social events, request for help in sending Kent manuscripts to the USSR)
Murder
(correspondence with FBI, local police, and graphologist regarding anonymous death threat against Kent; see also: "Hate" Mail)
Murphy, James P. J.
Murphy, Roy
Murray Amendment
(correspondence with elected officials in support of increased funding for WPA)
The Museum of Modern Art
Unidentified and Illegible
(F [E?]. M., undated; Lydia G. M., 1953)
Naiman, Max
"Nana"
(about Kent woodcut of Anna Sten in the role of "Nana")
The Nation
The National Academy of Arts and Letters
National Academy of Design
(invitations to exhibit and notification of election; printed matter)
National Advertising Art Center, Inc.
National Alliance of Art and Industry
(correspondence about Christmas card design)
National "Americans All" Week
National Art School
National Art Society
(correspondence about "Art for Your Sake" radio broadcast)
The National Arts Club
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
National Broadcasting Company, Inc. (NBC)
(correspondence about programming)
The National Cancer Foundation
The National Committee for Music Appreciation
National Committee for People's Rights
(printed matter, reports, minutes; correspondence with officers about administrative matters and activities on behalf of miners with lung disease)
National Conference of Christians & Jews
National Conference of Social Work
National Consumers League
National Council for Federal Health Security
National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, Inc.
(correspondence about: fund-raising activities and cultural events, art committee plans for exhibition and cultural exchange, disarmament, arrangements for speaking engagements and meeting plans, Kent's peace stamp, and Kent gift of paintings to the USSR; also, printed matter, publicity releases, form letters to general membership and executive board, and report)
National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, Inc., cont.
National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, Inc., cont.
National Council of the Arts, Sciences and Professions
(correspondence concerning Kent speech and McCarthyism; printed matter related to annual meeting; see also: Culture)
National Council to Combat Blindness, Inc.
National Emergency Conference for Democratic Rights (FBI) [National Federation for Constitutional Liberties]
(printed matter, including "Conference Statement on the Menace of the F.B.I.")
National Emergency Conference on Jobs and Security
National Federation for Constitutional Liberties
(mainly printed matter, including form letters to general membership; letters of endorsement from Kent appealing for funding of federation; see also: National Emergency Conference for Democratic Rights)
National Foundation for Asthmatic Children
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Contemporary Art
(proposed preamble, prospectus, constitution, bylaws, and certificate of incorporation; clippings; note from Eugenie Heller in support of project, and letter to Emilie Grigsby outlining plans for the Gallery; see also: Contemporary Art, Gallery of)
National Geographic
National Gray's Harbor Committee
(form letters and printed matter regarding civil rights)
National Guardian
The National Hotel Company
National Institute of Arts and Letters (see also: The American Academy of Arts and Letters and The National Institute of Arts and Letters)
National Jewish Black Book Committee
National Joint Committee for Spanish Relief
National Labor Committee Against War
(publications, reports, and form letters to general membership)
National League of American Pen Women
National Maritime Union of America
(correspondence about murals for the union's new headquarters; request from Joseph Hirsch to be considered for the commission, and letter from Kent to Hugo Gellert expressing disappointment in the finished mural; printed matter; invitations to special events; arrangements for exhibition of Soviet posters)
National Maritime Union of America, cont.
National Negro Congress
National Organization for Public Health Nursing, Inc.
National Public Housing Conference
National Publicity Council
The National Ralph Cheney Defense Committee
National Recreation Association
National Resources Planning Board
National St. Lawrence Association
(printed matter and form letters to general membership)
National Sharecroppers Week
National Soap Sculpture Committee
National Society for the Prevention of Blindness
(correspondence concerning design for fund-raising brochure, copyright ownership, and request to adapt illustration; printed matter)
The National Society of Mural Painters
National Student Conference for Peace, Academic Freedom & Equality
National Tuberculosis Association
(correspondence concerning Kent's design for the 1939 Christmas seal; sample seals; see also: Tuberculosis Association)
National U.S.O. Campaign
National War Poster Competition
National Youth Administration
Nations Credit Syndicate
Nazarian, Richard
Nearing, Scott and Helen
(correspondence about the Nearings' and Kent's writings; pacifist group being organized by the Nearings; printed matter about Social Science Institute with lists of its publications)
Needleman, Isidore G.
Negro Publication Society of America
Nelson, Edward
Nelson, George A.
Nelson, Steve
Nelson, Truman and Helen
Neutrality Act
(text of bill; letters from elected officials in reply to Kent's request that Congress not aid Japanese invasion of China [many signatures clipped])
New Age Gallery
(printed matter including annual report, checklists of exhibitions, and form letters to shareholders and exhibitors)
New Century Publishers
New Directions
(about illustrations for
New England Color Studio
New Frontiers
New House
New Jersey Philatelic Federation, Inc.
New Jersey State Museum
New Masses
(correspondence about unionization of artists, articles and letters to the editor by Kent with responses from readers, commissions for cover designs, speaking engagements, Art Young memorial, people's art, role of artist in wartime propaganda; miscellaneous printed matter including solicitations, subscription information, and advertising)
The New Republic
New Rochelle Public Library
The New School
The New Society of Artists
New Theatre Center
New Voices
New World Review
(correspondence with editor Jessica Smith regarding: illustration, publication, and distribution of book commemorating the 35th anniversary of the Russian Revolution; arrangements for speaking engagement; Smith's comments on Kent's autobiography and its reviews; Kent's comments on articles appearing in the magazine; and proposal to Cyrus Eaton for new magazine on East-West relations; news of mutual friends; gift of Kent paintings to the USSR)
New World Review, cont.
(thank you letters, menus, and schedules)
New York Central
(travel arrangements)
The New York City Council for Art Week, Inc.
New York Conference for Inalienable Rights
New York Council on American Soviet Relations and New York Peace Committee for April 6
(form letters and printed matter)
New York Herald Tribune
New York Post
The New York Public Library
New York State Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax
New York State Electric & Gas Corporation
New York State Historical Association
New York State Police
New York Telephone Company
The New York Times
New York World
New York World Telegram
The New Yorker
Newark Beth Israel Hospital
Newark Peace Action Committee
Newell-Emmett Company
Newfoundland
(correspondence with government officials regarding duty on works of art, charges that Kent was a German spy, and expulsion from the country)
Newman, Mordecai
Newspapers
(letters to editors commenting on editorials and news stories, mainly concerning politics; includes "Open Letter to Artists and Writers of the Soviet Union;" see also: newspapers by name)
Newsweek
Newton, Herbert
Niagara Lithograph Co.
(correspondence concerning sketch by Kent for use in vitamin advertisement)
Nichols, Dale
(correspondence about communism and modern art, art in Russia, spiritualism in art, philosophy of art, and Christianity; "Psychoscope," a chart indicating spiritual intensity of various artists; and
Nichols, Robert
Niebyl, Karl H.
(correspondence concerning Wallace's presidential campaign, Essex Co., N.Y. American Labor Party activities, and inquiries about Niebyl's background)
Niebyl, Karl H., cont.
Nielson, Nellie
Nieman Alumni Council
Night Flight
(thank-you letters for prints given as Christmas gifts)
Nikiforov, Nikolai Alexeevich
(correspondence with Russian fan mentioning exhibition of Kent's work at the Pushkin Museum, Kent's activities in the peace movement, customs problems; Nikiforov's bookplates and watercolor; clippings; greeting cards; see also: Russian Correspondence)
Nobel Peace Committee
Nolan, Emilia L.
Nord Company (see also: Rosen, Herbert)
Norheim Art Studio
Norman, Bradford, Jr. (The Commercial National Bank and Trust Company of New York)
(concerning advertising commission)
North American Weather Consultants
North Country School
North Country Wallace for President Committee
(correspondence, including reference to Kent's congressional campaign; see also: Campaign, 1948)
North, George
Northeast Airlines, Inc.
Northern Insurance Agency
Northern Neighbors
Northwestern Michigan College
(notice of qualification of Shirley Johnstone Kent; advertisements for supplies; renewal notices)
Novick, Ruth
Nowak, Hon. Stanley
Nuts
(letters requesting advice or help, and offering opinions (usually unflattering) about Kent's art, writings, or political beliefs; see also: "Hate" Mail; and Murder)
Obermeier, Erna
Obrynba, Nikolai
O'Connor, Jessica
O'Connor, John, Jr.
Of Men and Mountains
(paid bills)
Office and File Guide
(list of office supplies and their locations; lists of Kent's files arranged by subject, organization, and individual)
Office for Emergency Management
Office of Civilian Defense
(correspondence about commission for posters and newspaper illustrations of fighting forest fires; see also: Campaign (Office of Civilian Defense))
Office of Price Administration
Office of War Information
(correspondence about war posters and use of Kent illustrations in official publications)
(brochures and orders)
The Ogunquit Art Center
Ohbeodrey, Andrei
(correspondence with Russian art historian about Kent's books and exhibition in Moscow, museums and art patronage in the U.S., Soviet accomplishments in manned spaceflight, and Cold War)
Ohl, Molly C.
Oil Workers Poster
(correspondence about poster competition)
Oklahoma Committee to Defend Political Prisoners (see also: Labor Committee on Oklahoma Syndicalism Cases)
O'Laufilin, Elizabeth
Old White Art Gallery
Olding, Dorothy
O'Leary, Rose F. O.
(correspondence regarding purchase, repairs, and sales of equipment; also, correspondence and records relating to Kent's work as an Oliver Co. agent)
Olshin, F.
Olson, Irving J.
Olson, J. Bennet
Olson, L. M.
101 Classics
(photostats of illustrations; see also: The Greystone Corporation)
O'Neil, Mr.
Oosterbaan, Jeremiah and Danielle (see also: New House)
The Open Door
Open Letters
(requests to sign open letters on foreign policy, civil rights, U.S. immigration policy, etc., with copies of the letters)
The Open Road, Inc.
Operation
(get-well cards and letters)
Orange Benevolent Society No. 1, Inc.
Orcutt, Reginald
(correspondence about Greenland travel and exploration, friends in Iceland and Denmark, politics, family news Kent's passport suit, request for Kent's assistance in promoting work of Norwegian landscape painter)
Ordnance Sargent
(correspondence about Kent cover design; complaints about delay in returning original art work, and about inefficiencies of army postal system)
Orente, Rose
Orton, Vrest
Osborne, Charlotte Colyer
Oser, Jacob
O'Sheel, Shaemas
Outcalt, Evelyn
Overton, Walter
(letters to Kathleen Kent about Rockwell III's health, and their bicycle trip from New York to Cuba; letter to Frances Kent about Dickie; thank-you letter for kind mention of him in Kent's autobiography; see also: Kent, Rockwell, III)
Owen & Chappell, Inc.
(correspondence concerning advertising work; see also: Chappell, George S., Amy, and Ruth)
Oxford University Press
O, Unidentified
(Olga, 1969)
Pach, Magda F. and Walter
Pagano, Guy
Page, Richmond
Paintings
(correspondence, mainly with Mac [Robert] McIntyre of Macbeth Galleries and Kent patron J. J. Ryan, about purchases considered and made by Ryan from Kent directly or through Macbeth; correspondence with Ryan also concerns peace movement, civil rights, politics, plans for the Great Kent Collection, and letters of introduction; correspondence about Abbott Thayer Centennial, requests by museums for loans and background information on Kent works in museum collections, conservation problems of older. Kent paintings; general inquiries from prospective purchasers; lists of consignments; invitations to exhibit; see also: Pictures)
Palen, Frank A.
Palm, Dr. Delphine
Palmer, Carlton H. and Winthrop B.
Palmer, Hornbostel & Jones
Palmer, Thomas E.
Palo Alto Peace Club
Palsson, Dr. Joe
(correspondence about Iceland and politics)
Pamphlet Press
Pan American Airways
(concerning arrangements for trip to Alaska; fan letters about
Paramount Publix Corporation
(concerning drawing for movie
Parke-Bernet Galleries
Parker, G. M.
The Parker Pen Company
Parkinson, Royal
Parsons, Alice T. L.
Parsons School of Design
Partymiller, Walter
Passport Applications (see also: Department of State, Passport Division)
Passport Case
(correspondence with lawyers, elected officials, and supporters; clippings; chronology, and legal briefs of
Pasternak, Boris
(clippings about
Patri, Giacomo
(correspondence concerning foreword by Kent to Patri's book of woodcuts,
Patsy [Garrow]
(correspondence about local high school girl who lived and worked in the Kent household)
Patterson Brothers
Patterson, William and Louise
Pattno, Betty
Paul Bunyan
(correspondence about illustrations; review; see also: Shepherd, Esther)
Pauling, Dr. Linus
Paulson, Bob
Pavelle Laboratories, Inc.
Payro, Horace
Peace Book Company
The Peace Heritage Exchange Program
Peace Information Center
(correspondence about fund-raising and educational events, Kent lecture tour, foreign agent registration requirements; itineraries, expense reports; printed matter of Peace Information Center and other peace organizations, including brochures, form letters, petitions, press releases, newsletters, and clippings; see also: Du Bois, W. E. B.)
Peace Information Center, cont.
Peace Movements--Miscellaneous
(correspondence with Herbert Pell and James F. Lincoln about their letters to the editors of the
Peace Prize
(correspondence with Committee of the World Congress of the Defenders of Peace concerning appointment of Kent to jury and his inability to attend due to being denied a passport; lists of prize candidates, and reports of meetings of the jury)
Peace Stamps
(correspondence concerning design and distribution of peace stamps to benefit Council of American-Soviet Friendship and other peace groups; sample stamps; orders)
Pearce, Cap, and Clara Kent [daughter]
(family news, correspondence about publishing and reproduction of Kent illustrations; see also: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, Inc.; and Kent, Clara [daughter])
Pearmain, Robert and Nancy
Pearson, Fred
Peirce, Waldo
(
Pelkey, Mr. and Mrs. Euclid F.
Pell, Hon. Herbert
Pendergast, Mrs. E. P.
Pending
(requests for books, prints, illustrations)
Penn Camera Exchange
(orders)
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Pennsylvania Railroad
People to See
Peoples Action Service
Peoples Artists, Inc.
People's Conference for the Re-election of Congressman Vito Marcantonio
People's Council for Americanism
(correspondence about the need for a third party)
(receipts for milk sold to cooperative)
People's Institute for Applied Religions
(policy on Staten Island property)
People's National Health Committee
(correspondence about the work of the committee, and commission to design cover for
People's Radio Foundation
correspondence and printed matter concerning establishment of the foundation, with act of incorporation, background information on development of FM radio, minutes, reports to directors and stockholders, and broadcast schedules)
People's Songs, Inc.
(correspondence about songbook, and request for drawing for newsletter cover and help in scheduling fund raisers; see also: Hays, Lee)
(monthly publication)
People's War
People's World
Pepper, Senator Claude
(correspondence about Smith Act)
Pepsi-Cola Company (Paintings of the Year)
Perini, Marie
Perky, Mr. and Mrs.
Perl, Dr. William R.
(correspondence about mutual friends, copies of Perl's articles on psychotherapy, and the use of handwriting analysis as a diagnostic tool; see also: Handwriting Analyses, R.K.)
Perlo, Victor and Ellen
(correspondence about Perlo's passport case, mutual friends, comments on Mike Wallace interview of Kent, economics, and politics)
Permissions (see also: Reproductions (Requests for Permission))
Perrine, Van Derring
Perry, Barbara
The Personal Book Shop
Petchkovsky, Michael J.
(correspondence about Petchkovsky's collection of Pushkin memorabilia and its disposition)
Peters, Mr.
Peterson, Ergon R. (Pete) and La Gette
Pevsner, Sam
William Lyon Phelps Collection
Phi Gamma Delta
(correspondence including invitations, fund raising, and illustration for the fraternity's magazine; see also: Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta)
Phi Gamma Delta, cont.
Philadelphia Art Alliance
Philadelphia Print Club
(letters concerning exhibition and sale of Kent prints, notification of best print award, and invitation to speak; see also: The Print Club (Philadelphia))
Philadelphia Water Color Club
Philadelphia Young Friends' Association, Inc.
Philip Morris & Co., Ltd., Inc.
Philipp, Jane
Phillips, Duncan
(about development of Phillips Collection, purchase and exhibition of Kent paintings, and plans for Phillips Memorial Gallery)
Philo, Harry M.
(correspondence concerning American Labor Party business, and lawsuit to recover bad debt and campaign wagon from Philo)
Photographer
Piatigorsky, Gregor
Pictures
(correspondence with museums and galleries concerning loans, attempt to locate privately owned Kent paintings, letters from prospective buyers, reproduction permissions, requests for background information about paintings; miscellaneous notes and lists of paintings, prints, and illustrated books; see also: Paintings)
Pierce, Don
Pierce, Ethel May
Pierce, L. Bruce
S. S. Pierce Co.
Pierson, Cornelia
Pierson, Virnie
Pine, Mrs.
Pineiro, Lorenzo
Pinzke, Herbert
(correspondence concerning Society of Typographic Artists' Rockwell Kent "Keepsake")
Pious, Minerva
(includes correspondence about preparing Kent's Greenland diary for publication)
Piscator, Dr. Erwin
Pitkin, Walter B.
Pittman, John and Margaret
Plagiarism
(correspondence about unauthorized reproductions, copyright infringement, and plagiarism of Kent illustrations; samples of published illustrations)
Plank, George
Plant, Philip M.
Platt, David
Plattsburgh Public Library
Playgram Publications
Plimpton, Russell A.
Plourde, Andre
Plourde, Gemma
Plummer, Father
Plummer, Sir Leslie
PM
Pocket Books, Inc.
Poehler, Robert S.
Polacheck, Stanley
Polak, Mrs. Nahum
Polevoi, Boris
Polish Friends
Pollak, O.
Pommeroy, William J.
Pope, Arthur Upham
Popular Mechanics Press
Porter, Bern
Porter, Cyrus
Porter, Lt.
Porter, Marjorie
(correspondence with historian of Essex Co., N.Y., about interesting Burl Ives in her balled collection, and plans for Adirondack history exhibit)
Porter, Phil
Portinari, Candido
(correspondence with Brazilian painter, includes advice on lithographic techniques and proposed visit to the U.S.; correspondence with publisher about book on the life and work of Portinari, with an introduction by Kent)
Post Office
(complaints)
Post Office Murals
(correspondence and contracts pertaining to design and installation of murals for U.S. Post Office Department, Washington, D.C.; correspondence, press releases, and clippings regarding controversy over Eskimo language message incorporated in the mural that was interpreted as support for Puerto Rican independence; see also: Puerto Rican Mural)
Post Office Murals, cont.
Post Office Murals Controversy
Postage Stamp Controversy
(letters to postmaster general and the
Pratt Institute
Preator, Moiria
Prendergast, Maurice B.
(letters about exhibition; 2 calling cards)
Prescott, Mr.
Prescott, Mrs. Roger Baber
President and Congress
Pressed Steel Car Co., Inc.
Price, Arthur
(correspondence about mutual friends, family, Kent's books, health, Mike Wallace interview of Kent, passport suit, and travels)
Price Lists
(prints, drawings, and paintings on consignment and for sale from exhibitions)
Prima Theatrical Co.
Prime, May
Primus, Pearl
(letters [mostly illegible due to water damage], greeting cards, programs of Primus dance performance, and newspaper article about her)
Princeton University
Print Club (Cleveland, Ohio)
(correspondence concerning edition of
The Print Club (Philadelphia) (see also: Philadelphia Print Club)
The Print Collector's Quarterly
Print Council of America
Pritt, Mr.
(dairy business statistics)
Program
Progress Publishing Company
Progressive Citizens of America
Progressive Librarians Council
(correspondence concerning arrangements for radio broadcast and publication of Kent's speech; letters in support of council president Philip Keeny's ambition to become director of Cleveland Public Library; see also: Radio Addresses)
Progressive Party
Promoting Enduring Peace
The Protestant
Protestantism Answers Hate
Provident Mutual Life Insurance Company
Provisional Citizens Committee to Aid Letter Shop Workers
(relating to investments)
Public Broadcasting Environment Center
Public Service Commission
(correspondence with lawyers, elected officials, etc., concerning complaints about fare structure and condition of Delaware and Hudson railway cars; legal papers dismissing the complaint)
Public Use of Arts Committee
(correspondence about art for decoration of subway stations, invitation to serve on committee, arrangements for Kent radio address publicizing City-Wide Children's Arts Festival; texts of interview and speech)
Publications Contributed to
(correspondence with authors and editors concerning book reviews, introductions, and articles by Kent for publication in books, exhibition catalogs, newspapers, and magazines relating to art, politics, the USSR, and other subjects; reproduction permissions)
Publications Contributed to, cont.
Publications Contributed to, cont.
Publicity
Publishers
The Publisher's Weekly
Puerto Rican Mural
(correspondence concerning controversy over Kent mural in Post Office Department, Washington, D.C., depicting delivery of Eskimo-language message to the people of Puerto Rico and interpreted as supporting Puerto Rican independence; undated manuscript of "Let Us Change Chiefs," an article by Kent about the mural controversy; see also: Post Office Murals; Post Office Murals Controversy; and Quinn, Tom)
Puerto Rico
(correspondence, 1936-1944, about political and labor conditions in Puerto Rico, civil rights and political prisoners, and Puerto Rican nationalism; correspondence, 1956-1957, with friends in Puerto Rico and plans for visiting)
Pulitzer, Ralph
Pulitzer, Seward W. (Pully)
The Pullman Company
Puma, Fernando
Punsky, Frania
Purdue University
Purdy, James
Pushman vs. New York Graphic Society
(correspondence concerning artists' publication rights)
Putnam, George P.
(correspondence concerning Rockwell Kent, Inc., publication of books written and/or illustrated by Kent; royalty statements; see also: Brewer & Warren, Inc.)
Putnam, Israel, Sr.
Putnam, Peg
Putnam, Samuel
Putnam's Bookstore
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pynson Printers Incorporated
(correspondence about design details and specifications for illustrated books, bookplates, and other Kent work; founding of
Pynson Printers Incorporated, cont.
P, Unidentified and Illegible
(Guido and Grace P., undated; Horace Pecu[?], 1948; Rosamund, 1970)
Quayle, Bruce
The Queen Elizabeth
Queen, Ellery
Quinn, Tom
(design and installation of murals for U.S. Post Office Department, Washington, D.C.; correspondence, press releases, and clippings regarding controversy over Eskimo-language message incorporated in the mural that was interpreted as support for Puerto Rican independence; see also: Post Office Murals; Post Office Murals Controversy; Puerto Rican Mural)
Rabin and Krueger Gallery
Rabinowitz, Clara
Rabinowitz, N.
(concerning purchases of art supplies)
Rackley, Mildred
Radical Groups--Communist Party and Activities
(correspondence regarding contributions, request for cover illustration and discussion of symbolism of final design, and invitations to speak at or attend events)
Radical Groups--Fascism--American League Against War and Fascism
(inquiries about magazine cover designs, lectures, invitations to events, form letters and other printed matter)
Radical Groups--Germany--Guild for German Cultural Freedom; Committee for Anti-Nazi Literature, etc.
(requests for sponsorship and invitations to speak)
Radical Groups--Political Prisoners, National Committee for the Defense of
(correspondence and printed matter, mainly about Brazil and fund raising)
Radical Groups--Russia--
(correspondence concerning article and drawings for the magazine; see also: Soviet Russia Today)
Radical Groups--Sharecroppers
(correspondence about plight of southern agricultural laborers and their need to unionize, request for Kent to design stamp for the cause, and film about sharecroppers; letters from Lee Hays concerning his progress as a writer, with copy of a short story; printed matter)
Radical Groups--Spain--Medical Bureau to Aid Spanish Democracy
(correspondence about activities of Artists and Writers Committee, fund raising, invitations to speak, requests to design logo; form letters; clippings; see also: Spanish Causes)
Radical Groups--Various Assorted
(includes correspondence with American League to Abolish Capital Punishment, Bill of Rights Poster Contest, Gallup Civil Rights Commission, Federal Arts Committee, and Federal Writers' Project)
Radio Addresses
(text of speech to Progressive Librarians Council and resulting fan mail, 1941; scripts for campaign speeches, 1946 or 1948; correspondence concerning arrangements for broadcasts, and texts of remarks on peace, 1959-1960; see also: Progressive Librarians Council; and Speeches)
Radio Corporation of America
Raffles
Rahr, Guido
(correspondence about centennial history of Rahr Malting Co., written and illustrated by Kent, and technical details of its printing; see also: Hinrichs, Hans; History of Manitowoc Co. Rahr Family; and
(credit card contract and related correspondence)
Rainey, Pat
Rajappan, P.
Ramsey, Carl T.
Random House
(correspondence concerning Kent-illustrated books published by Random House, ideas for future projects, payments and royalties, and commissions to design insignia and bookplate)
Random House, cont.
Rantz, Berta
Rapp, Hilde
Rasmussen, Knud
(correspondence regarding translations of Greenland sagas, and plans for Kent voyage to Greenland; see also: Denmark Correspondence)
Raus, Milton
Robert Raven Rehabilitation Committee
Raymond and Raymond Incorporated
(about reproduction of
Raymond & Whitcomb Company
Raymond, Frank Jo
Read, H. O.
Read, Mary
Readers Digest
Real Estate (Farms for Sale)
(offer to sell property to Kent)
Real, James
Reality: A Journal of Artists' Opinions
Rebalbuto, L. A.
Rebentisch, Martha R.
Reber, Alma (Mrs. Jean Loomis Reeber)
Receipts--Contracts, etc.
(passenger car registration, check stubs from publishers)
Red Cross 1944 War Fund of Greater New York, Artists for Victory Division
Carroll Reed Ski Shops
Reed, Carolyn H.
Reed, Gordon and Kate [aunt] (see also: Banff, Canada)
Reed, Lawrence
(correspondence with collector of Kentiana who requested help in selling his collection)
Reed, [illegible]
Reeves, Ruth
(correspondence about hiring a Reeves student to assist Kent, Artists Equity Association, mutual friends, Kent on relation of design to literary expression, Reeves's travels to India, and gift of Kent Collection to the USSR; article about Reeves)
Refregier, Anton
Rehn, Frank K. M.
(includes receipt for sale of painting and shipping arrangements)
Reiner, Mr.
Reingold, Morris
Reiser, Paul
Reiter, Dr. Samuel
Relief in Spain
(mainly form letters from American Red Cross)
Rennell, Martin and Florence
Replies from Art Teachers to Text Book Questionnaire
(form letter to instructors of college students training to be art teachers, seeking comments about Kent's proposed text book; sample table of contents and replies; see also: Text Book)
Reproductions (Requests for Permission) (see also: Permissions)
Resika, A.
Resist
Ressinger, Paul M.
Reyes, Guadalupe
Reymond, Frank
Reynolds, James
Reynolds, Julia C.
Rhodes, Clayton E.
Rhythm: A Journal for the Promotion of the Four Arts
Rice, Anna T.
Rice, Shepherd
Richards, G. Thayer
Rich's, Inc.
Rideout, Patricia M.
Rie, Paul
The Right to Travel Exhibition
(correspondence concerning arrangements and publicity for the show, a fund raiser intended to defray Kent's legal expenses for passport lawsuit; clippings related to passport problems)
Ripley, A. Crooks
(correspondence with an English fan)
Ritz Tower Hotel
Rivera Appeal
(Diego Rivera's letter "to Rockwell Kent and all artists and men of culture" calling for an end to nuclear weapons; correspondence with National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, William Gropper, Rivera, and Norman Cousins about how to bring widespread attention to the appeal; text of address by Pablo Neruda to World Council of Peace, Ceylon, June 1957)
Rivers, Myra
Robare, Louis P. and Nancy
Robbins, Rachel
Roberts, Holland (see also: American Russian Institute)
Roberts, Ronnie & Richard
Robeson, Paul
(includes letter of congratulation on
Robeson Process Co.
Robin, Eva
Robinson, Earl
Robinson, Ione
(outline of a book and correspondence about possibilities for collaboration; also, her financial and medical problems, and advice from Kent)
Robinson, Joseph
Robinson, Reid
Robinson Travel
(travel arrangements)
Robinson Travel, cont.
Roche Advertising Co.
(correspondence concerning drawing for the
Roche, Margrit Andresen
(letters to Kent, American Artists Congress and the Artists Union, with "Purpose of the Free Lance Artists' Mutual Enterprises and Allied Creative Enterprises," a plan for a federation of artists' cooperatives)
Rochester, Charles E.
Rochester Memorial Art Gallery
Rockwell, Norman
Roe, Wellington
(correspondence about request to write introduction to a book by Art Young and Roe, activities of the National Committee for Peoples' Rights, account of Roe's dismissal from civilian position with U.S. Navy for previous political activities, compulsory military training, Roe's work for Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, and Kent drawings for some of its publications)
Roerich Academy of Arts
Roerich Museum
(request for biographical information and a photo to include in upcoming book on leaders of American artistic and cultural life, article proposing creation of international peace flag, and catalog of exhibition from the collection of George S. Hellman that included a painting by Kent)
Roerich, Nicholas
Roerich Pact and Banner of Peace Committee
Rogers, Bruce
Rogers, Henry Geer
J. & J. Rogers Company
Rogers, John C.
Rogers, Spaulding
Rogers, Sydney
Rogge, O. John and Wanda
Rohr, Eugene
Rojankovski, Feodor
Romano, Emanuel
Romanoff, Michael
(correspondence about money owed to Kent, and Romanoff's impersonation of Kent; news clippings)
Romas, Yakov and Alyosha
Rome, Carolyn
Roos, Delmar G. (Barney)
Roosevelt, Franklin D. and Eleanor
(letters to the president regarding American policy in Japan, praising speech at the Museum of Modern Art and emphasizing importance of Fine Arts Division of WPA, supporting the release of Earl Browder and Harry Bridges, protesting against FBI investigator's questions concerning Soviet students' Christmas visit to Kent home; letter of condolence to Eleanor Roosevelt upon the death of her husband)
(
Roper, Elmo
Rose, William
Roselius, Ludwig
(letters and clippings from Bulgaria's general counsel to Germany)
Rosemarie de Paris, Inc.
Rosen, Dr.
Rosen, Helen and Sam
Rosen, Herbert
(correspondence concerning arrangements for Nord Co. to publish Kent drawings on Christmas cards; see also: Nord Co.)
Rosenberg, James N. and Bessie
(correspondence with artist friend who was also Kent's attorney, concerning: purchase of property, Kent's complaint against Delaware and Hudson, problems with publishers, refugees in Dominican Republic, investments, Kent's American Labor Party campaign, politics, revision of wills of Rockwell and Sally, criticism of Metropolitan Museum, gifts and purchases of art by Rosenberg, civil rights, and anti-Semitism; also gallery announcements of Rosenberg exhibitions)
Rosenberg, Vivian and Irving
Rosenfeld, Ernest
Rosenfeld, Kurt
Rosengren, Mrs. Frank
(correspondence regarding bookplate design, and exhibition of Kent prints in Rosengren's bookstore)
Ross, Marion Sheila
Rotary Club
(correspondence concerning speaking engagement at Rotary Club in Glens Falls, N.Y., and reply to its request for further information about the American League for Peace and Democracy)
Rothman, Walter
Rothschild, Lincoln
Rothschild, Myron
Rouse, Blair
Royal Society of Arts
(mainly banking records, some receipts, check stubs, and itemized statements of royalties)
Rubenstein, Dr. H. J.
Rubenstein, John Bendix
Rubin, Bill and Rose
Rubin, Louis S.
Rubin, Mr.
Rubinstein, Annette
Rudabarg, Anna and Stanley
Rudhyar, D.
("An Introduction to the Mysteries of Space," by D. Rudhyar, poet, philosopher, and composer; series of poems, "New York Summer," and letter of congratulations to Kent on his appointment as editor of
Ruggles, Carl
(letters including thanks to Kent for opera ideas and mention of Stokowski; discussion of Ruggles's work and Kent's activities)
H. I. Ruggles & Company
Rukeyser, Muriel
Rumania
(correspondence with friends and officials of the Rumanian Institute for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, about: costumes, publications, Kent exhibition in Moscow, and proposed gift to the USSR)
Rummel, Elizabeth
Rushia, Ector
Russell, L. G.
Russell, Mrs.
Russell-Rutter Company, Inc.
Russian Correspondence
(correspondence with Soviet friends about manned space flight, news of mutual friends, Cold War, travel plans (many letters in Russian, with English translations); bookplate samples from Nikiforov; see also: Nikiforov, Nikolai Alexeevich; Solov, Alyosha, Galya, and Nikiforov; Soviet Friends; and Zaborovsky, Frank)
Russian War Relief
(correspondence concerning poster by Kent for Russian War Relief, poster exhibition, speaking engagements, and fund raising)
Ruth, Corrine
Rutland Herald
Rutland Railroad
R, Unidentified
(Debbie, undated; Gloria, 1970; Jimmy R., undated; Joyce and Bob R., 1953)
Saadoun, Arisa
Sacco-Vanzetti
(correspondence with Worcester Art Museum concerning upcoming exhibition and announcement that Kent is severing all connections with the museum and other institutions in Massachusetts as a protest against executions of Sacco and Vanzetti; letters in reaction to the announcement; clippings; photographs of Sacco and Vanzetti)
Sachs, Hillard M.
Sackett, DeForest
Sackley, Dr. Ralph R.
Sagrera, Ricardo, Jr.
Sahula, Mary
St. John, Robert
Sala, Roland J.
Salamina
(correspondence with geography professor about Salamina's granddaughter)
Salamina China
(correspondence concerning presentation set of Salamina china for Mr. Olindow, director of Greenland)
Salter, Harry
Salute
(correspondence with War Production Board about salvaging scrap materials for the war effort)
Salzman, Mrs. Reuben
The Samuel Adams School for Social Studies
Samuels, Landers
San Francisco Chronicle
Sanderson, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Leslie
SANE
Sanger, Margaret
The Saranac Art League
Sargent, Porter and Jane
(correspondence about Sargent's books, politics, and American education)
(bulletins (no. 67-94); reviews, advertisements, and order forms for Porter Sargent's books on education, politics, and suppressed news; reprints of articles by others)
Sasik, Andrew
The Saturday Forum Luncheon Group
The Saturday Review
Sauers, Edithe and Clark
Savage, Anna
Save the Children Federation
Sawyer, Jean
Scanlon, Robert
Schachter, Simon
Schaefer, Martha
Schaefer, Paul
Schaefer, Dr. S. W.
Schaffner, Joseph Halle
Schappes Defense Committee
Scheier, Aaron, H., and Florence
Schenker, Ben W.
Schenkman, Rita
Schering Corporation
Schiff, Bertha and Maurice
Schiller, Albert
Schillinger, Frances and Joseph (see also: Shaw, Frances; and Singer, Frances)
Schindler, Pauline G.
G. Schirmer, Inc.
Schlamme, Miss
Schlesinger, Dr. H. Leonard and Caroline
Schlosser, Philip
Schneiderman-Darcy Defense Committee
Schneidermann, William
Schoenbrun, David F.
Scholle, Howard A.
Scholz, Miroslav
Scholz, R. R.
Scholz, Walter
School for Democracy
School of Applied Philosophy
School Milk Fight
(letters to school board and other interested parties requesting contract to supply milk to AuSable public schools)
Schoonover, Pat
Schrader, F. L.
Schroder, Dorothy B.
Schroeder, H. L.
Schultze, Betty
Schumacher, H. A.
Schumm, Paul and Dorothy
(correspondence about current events, politics, Puerto Rico and Cuba, travels, and Kent's autobiography)
Schuster, Fernande
Schutzer, Arthur
Schwab and Beatty, Inc.
Scientific American
Scott, Carrie Taliafeno
Scott, Dulcie
Scott, Julian P.
Screen Cartoon Guild
Screen Readers Guild of New York
Scribner, Joseph M.
Charles Scribner's Sons
(correspondence concerning cover designs, with one sample)
Scully, Peg and Bill
Sears, Roebuck and Co.
(correspondence regarding advertising work, "Hall of Art" (a gallery run by Sears) and purchase of Kent art work and memorabilia; purchase of dairy equipment, tools, and materials for remodeling house on Monhegan)
Seckar, Alvena
(correspondence about exhibition of Seckar's paintings, Artists League of America, mutual friends, writings of Kent and Seckar, politics, and car accident; see also: Artists League of America)
Sedgley, Adelaide and Frank R.
Seeger, Pete and Toshi
Seelbuck, James
Seelye, L. Clark
Segal, Edith
Seidenberg, Roderick and Catharine
Seigel, Ted and Naomi
Seldes, George
Senators and Congressmen, Secretary of State, etc.
(correspondence regarding Kent's opinions on foreign policy, WPA arts programs, farm price regulations, civil rights, nuclear testing and disarmament, and passport case)
Senators and Congressmen, Secretary of State, etc., cont.
Sender, H. M.
Sendzimir, Barbara
Senecal, Mr.
Service Center
Charles Sessler (J. Leonard Sessler)
(correspondence with book and print seller concerning prints on consignment; request to design bookplates for a special customer)
(correspondence concerning Shakespeare illustrations for limited edition)
Shankle, Dutch
Shapiro, S. R.
Shapley, Dr. Harlow
Shappert, F. W.
Shauble, Joan Fay
Shaw, Frances (see also: Schillinger, Frances; and Singer, Frances)
Shaw, W. A.
Shelton, W. H.
Shepherd, Esther (see also: Paul Bunyan)
Sheriff, Arthur (Sherry) and Charlotte
Sherry Wine & Sprits Co., Inc.
Sherwin Williams Co.
(correspondence about advertising work; text for booklet by Kent about where he has lived and how those homes were decorated)
Sherwood, Helen H.
Sherwood, Robert E.
Shields, E. J.
(correspondence about definitions of socialism and capitalism, and request that Kent help him find a socialist woman companion)
Shields, Florence
Shipbuilders Council of America
Shipley, Ruth
Shipp, Alex
Shiratsuki, Anne
Shirer, Tess and Bill
Shongood, May and Joe (see also: Greenberg, May)
Shorell, Bobbie and Mel
Shorell, M. L.
Shostac, Percy
Siens, Zdravo and Tot
Silberstein, Andrea
Silberstein, Beverly
Silfverskiold, Dr. Nils
Silk Screen Group
(correspondence and contract with Living American Art concerning production of silkscreen prints as a commercial venture, including discussion of the advisability of using the term "silkscreen paintings" with prepared statement in opposition; see also: Living American Art, Inc.)
Sillen, Janet
Silver, Ray
Simon and Schuster, Inc.
Simon, Charles
(correspondence about purchase of Kent painting and its subsequent repair; bookplate commission)
Simon, Marianne and Sid
Simon, Max L.
Sinclair, May (Mrs. Upton Sinclair)
Sinel, Jo
(news of mutual friends, plans to visit, travels, and book design)
Singbartt, Joe
Singer, Frances
(includes obituary of Joseph Schillinger and biographical notes; see also: Schillinger, Frances and Joseph; Shaw, Frances)
Siple, Clarence S.
Sisson, George W., Jr.
(correspondence about Jersey cattle)
Sixty-Eight Restaurant, Inc.
Skinner, John
Skirvin, Ella and Fred
Slater, Mr.
Sloan, John
Sloan, Sam
Slocum, Lorimer
Smart, A. H.
Smith Act Trial Data
(printed matter)
Smith, Barrett
(correspondence with former classmate, including request for advice from Kent on drawing instruction, literary agents, and finding a lawyer to represent him in an insurance case)
Smith, Frank and Juliet
(correspondence concerning book jacket lettering work for Juliet; letters to Frances Kent inquiring about her condition after auto accident)
Smith, Fred A.
Smith, H. Allen
Smith, Henry
Smith, Kevin
Smith, Mary Rowell
Smith, Mrs. Philip
Smithsonian Institution
Smoot, Ivia and Jim
Snell, Inez and Harold
Snow, Mrs. Clarence L.
Snyder, Elsa
Snyder, Flossie Kent Ely
Sobell, Helen
(records, including completed forms for taxes withheld from farm employees' salaries)
Social Work Today
Society for Abolishing "Dear" in Business Letters
Society of American Etchers, Gravers, Lithographers, and Woodcutters (Inc.)
Society of Hounds Books, Inc.
Society of Independent Artists, Inc.
Socony-Vacuum Oil Company
Sokolov, Alyosha, Galya, and Nikiforov
(correspondence with Russian friends about manned space flight, plans for return trip to Russia, news of mutual friends [targets incorrectly read Solov and Sov]; see also: Russian Correspondence; and Soviet Friends)
Sokolov, Alyosha, Galya, and Nikiforov, cont.
Solov, Liuba
(correspondence about Solov's English translations of Russian letters addressed to Kent; news of mutual friends; see also: Assade, Liuba)
Somebody Had to Do Something
(booklet distributed by James Phillips Lardner Memorial Fund)
Somerville, Dr. John
Sondergaard, Gale (see also: Biberman, Herbert, and Gale Sondergaard)
Sonic Boom Claim
Sorensen, Peter
Sorrell, Thelma
Sorrell, Walter J.
Soule, Isobel Walker
Soulier, George
Soulier, Ida
Southern Conference Educational Fund, Inc.
Southern Conference for Human Welfare
(correspondence about design and production of Thomas Jefferson medal; printed matter)
Southern Pacific Company
Southern Tenant Farmers Union
Southwell, John
Souvenirs, Miscellaneous (R.K. personal)
(mainly printed items, including tickets, programs, postcards, invitations, etc.)
Souvenirs of the USSR
(mainly printed items, including tickets, programs, invitations, etc.; see also: USSR Trip)
Soviet Friends
(correspondence (A-Z), clippings, photographs, and printed matter, much of it in Russian, with some translations; see also: Russian Correspondence)
Soviet Friends, cont.
Soviet Friends, cont.
Soviet Russia Today
(correspondence including request for an article by Kent and invitation to speak; text of Kent article on art and artists in the USSR; see also: Radical Groups--Russia)
Soviet Students
(correspondence concerning entertainment of Soviet students from Columbia University during Christmas vacation, invitations to friends to join the festivities and/or contribute gifts and greetings; letters of commendation and thanks; see also: Discussion Group; and Greetings to Students)
Sowka, Dr. Hans J.
Spain
(miscellaneous printed matter)
Spanish Causes
(correspondence with various groups supporting Spanish democracy concerning fund-raising events and requests for Kent to speak; printed material; see also: American Committee for Spanish Freedom; Radical Groups--Spain; and
Spanish Refugee Relief Campaign
(correspondence, reports, and printed matter regarding aid for escapees of fascist Spain)
Spaulding, John T.
Speaking Engagements (see also: Columbia Lecture Bureau; Lecture Bureaus (Miscellaneous); and W. Colston Leigh, Inc.)
Speaking Engagements, cont.
Spector, George
Speeches
(transcripts and notes (mostly undated, untitled, and with no indication of occasion or audience; a few appear to have been intended as written statements rather than speeches) see also: Radio Addresses)
Spence, Harry
Spock, Benjamin
Sponsorship
(letters from organizations requesting donations, Kent's signature on open letters, or other endorsements; list of all groups sponsored by Kent since 1940; see also: Causes (all entries); Radical Groups (all entries); and "Subversive" Organizations List)
Sponsorship, cont.
Spotlight
Spotswood, Russell K.
Sprinchorn, Carl
Springs, Elliott White
Springville High School
Squier, Rita
Squillaci, Niccola
Squires, Frederick
Squires, Mrs. Walter, Jr.
Stable Galleries
Standard Oil Co.
(correspondence regarding reproduction of painting; also, heating oil contracts)
Stander, Alice
Stander, Lionel
Stanford University
Staniford, Gloria
Stanko, Joseph
State Council of National Defense
State, County and Municipal Workers of America
State Department (see also: Department of State, Passport Division)
State University College, Plattsburgh, N.Y.
State War Ballot Commission
Statement on the Use of the Fifth Amendment
Statements
(statements written by Kent on a variety of topics, mostly solicited and mainly on political subjects; includes Kent's "Ten Commandments for Artists")
The Staten Island Chamber of Commerce
Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences
Steel, Johannes
Steele, Bob
Steele, Frederick Dorr and Polly
Stefansson, Evelyn
Steffanson, Vilhjalmar
(correspondence about the image of Greenland in movies, aviation conditions, Kent's plans for a trip to Greenland, Explorers' Club, Kent's post office mural with controversial inscription, Steffanson's writings, Eskimo language, Gordon Kent in Greenland, donation of Steffanson's library to Dartmouth College)
Steichen, Edward
Steinberg, Boris R. and Elaine
Steiner, Sydney J. R.
Steinhardt, Maxwell
Steinhoff, Carl
Steinmetz, Harry and Doris
Stephens, Roderick
Stephens, Roger
Stern, Samuel
Sternberg, Harry
Sterner, Marie
Stevens, John D.
Stevenson, Eleanor, and Ruth Erickson (see also: Erickson, Ruth, and Eleanor Stevenson)
Stewart, Cora
Stewart, Donald Ogden and Ella Winter
(news of mutual friends, arrangements for care of dogs; checklist and biographical sketch of sculptor Hesketh)
Stewart, John
Stieglitz, Alfred
Stirling, Sarah V. Daingerfield
The Stockbridge School
Stockholm Appeal
(correspondence protesting State Department's charge that the Stockholm Appeal is Communist propaganda)
(annual reports, proxies, etc.)
Stoddard, George Kent [cousin]
(advice to Stoddard on journalism and art career; also, family news, politics)
Stoddard, George Kent [cousin], cont.
Stokes, Graham
Stokes, Rose Pastor
Stolzenbach, Anne (see also: Balken, Nick)
Stone, Izzy F.
Stone, Michael
(correspondence, mainly about Stone's marital and financial problems, and news of mutual friends)
Stone, Miss
Stoneman, William
Stop Film Censorship Committee
Stork Club
Stoughton, Mrs.
Stoughton, Perley
Stover, Frederick W.
Strassle, E. F.
Straus, Leon
Strong, Anna Louise
Struik, Dirk and Ruth
Strutz, Henry
Stuart, John
Stuart, Vere
Studebaker Sales Corporation
Student Union Artists Committee
Studio House
Studio Publications
"Subversive" Organizations List (see also: Lightbody, Charles and Georgia; and Sponsorship)
"The Subversives" (Notes)
(letters from Charles [Lightbody] about reformers and renegade thinkers in antiquity and in the history of the Christian church (for a book Kent was contemplating?); see also: Lightbody, Charles and Georgia)
Sullivan, Francis P.
Sullivan, Frank
Sullivan, Grace M. A.
Sullivan, John J.
(correspondence with a fan)
Sullivan, Tom
Sully, Julia
Sulzberger, Arthur Hays
The Sun
(draft of letter to the editor)
Supplies (see also: Artists' Supplies)
Suter, Audrey
Suter, Eugene
Sutton, Ruth Haviland
Svigals, Ed. R.
Swain, Howard
(2 catalogs,
Sweeties (see also: Irwin, Rose; MacMillan, Nance; and Moran, Sally)
(letters to women who were lovers, girlfriends or acquaintances of Kent)
Swenson, Mary Della
Sydnes, Astrid
S, Unidentified and Illegible
(Anne H. S., 1957; Charles, 1968; J. B. S., 1907; Margaret H. S., 1916; Mary S., 1946; S[?], 1931)
Taggard, Genevieve
Take to USSR
(letters outlining plans and projects of National Council of American-Soviet Friendship; also, letters from friends and publishers received while in the USSR; clippings and other printed matter (in Russian))
Tallentire, Molly
(correspondence about Tallentire Defense Committee, Norman's health, McCarthyism, deportation order, politics, news of mutual friends, and employment problems; printed matter regarding Tallentire case)
Tallentire, Norman
(correspondence about International Workers Order, raffle of art work for fund raising, requests for Kent to speak, detention at Ellis Island, McCarthyism; printed matter re: Norman Tallentire Jubilee and Committee for the Defense of Norman Tallentire; see also: International Workers Order)
Tallon, W. J.
Tampy, K. P. Padmanabhan
(correspondence concerning articles about Kent in
Tampy, K. P. Padmanabhan, cont.
Tarrytown Centennial Celebration, Inc.
TASS
Tata Sons Private Limited
Tau Sigma Delta Honorary Fraternity
Tauk, V.
(correspondence, receipts, forms, instructions)
(correspondence, receipts, forms, instructions)
(correspondence, receipts, forms, instructions)
(correspondence, receipts, forms, instructions)
(forms, receipts, instructions)
Taylor, Dean P.
Taylor, Deems
Taylor, E. C.
Taylor, Warner
(correspondence with Monhegan friend about the USSR, family news, Kent's books, and gift of Kent Collection to the USSR)
Teachers Union
The Teacher's Union of the City of New York
Telegrams
(mainly concerning speaking and travel arrangements; includes copy of
Tenggren, Mr.
(printed matter)
Terman, Mandel A.
(correspondence about the USSR, abstract art, politics, Kent passport case, mutual friends, Terman's health, Kent's books, Chicago Council of American Soviet Friendship, and Terman's daughter, Shelly Terman (Canton), an artist)
Text Book
(table of contents for proposed book, sample form letter to college art teachers, and letter from publisher commenting on outline and form letter for survey; see also: Replies from Art Teachers to Text Book Questionnaire)
Thalbitzer, William
Thank-You Letters
Thayer, Emma
Thayer, Gerald H.
Theatre Arts Magazine
Thelan, Jos. V.
Thibaud, Wayne
Thielberger, Alfred
Thiele, Mrs.
Thiessen, Arthur E.
Things to Be Sent
(letters requesting photos, information, etc.)
Things to Be Sent, cont.
Third Party
(correspondence and printed matter regarding the Wallace presidential campaign; see also: American Labor Party
Culture)
This Is My Own
(fan letters)
This Week
(correspondence and invoices concerning illustration work)
Thomas, Horatio W.
Thomas, Lowell
Thompson, Al
Thompson, Dorothy
Thompson, H. Keith
(correspondence concerning gift of Kent Collection to the USSR, appreciation of Kent's writings; relationship with Kent as literary agent)
J. Walter Thompson Co.
Thompson, Lawrence
Thompson, Nancy
Thompson, Oliver
Thomsen, Eric H.
Thor, Fritz
Thorington, J. Monroe
Thornley, Fant
Thorp, Carl
Thorsen, Marie and William B.
Three Lions Publishers
Thwaites, John E.
Thwaites, Mrs. J. E.
Tibbits, Marion
Ticonderoga Taxpayer Association
Tierney, Louise H.
Tierney, Patrick J.
Tierra del Fuego
(correspondence, Guiles Affair material, writings by others, art work, and notes during Kent's voyage to Tierra del Fuego, South America)
Tiffany & Co.
Tillander, Margarita E.
Tillstron, Alexander
Time-Life Books
Time Magazine
(correspondence concerning plans for the new magazine and the possibility of an article about Kent)
Times Herald
Timmons, Edward
(45 pp. pamphlet by K. Zilliacus; see also: Zilliacus, K.)
Tkach, Susan
To the Universe
To Thee
(letters of praise and congratulations on the published history of the Rahr Malting Co., written and illustrated by Kent; see also: Hinrichs, Hans; History of Manitowoc Co. Rahr Family; and Rahr, Guido)
Tone, John H.
Todd, Dee Dee
Tolchan, Yakov and Vera
Lombardo Toledano Dinner Committee
Toledo Forums Association
The Toledo Museum of Art
Tolegian, Manuel J.
Tolman, Harry A., Sr.
Tolman, Parker H.
Tomkins, Warwick and Helen
Torrance, Fred A.
Torrance, Robert F.
Totah, Elias
Totah, Ruth
Town and Country Review
"Town Topics,"
(correspondence and notes on local news)
Townsend, Reginald
Toy Business (see also: Monaco, Arto C.)
Trachtenberg, Alexander
Train
(correspondence, notes, legal documents, petitions, and clippings concerning lawsuit to prevent cessation of passenger service on AuSable Branch of Delaware and Hudson line; see also: AuSable Branch of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad Corp. Lawsuit)
Traubel, Horace
Trauber, Jerry and Selma
(correspondence about sales of Kent books, monument design, and International Workers Order; see also: International Workers Order)
Travis, Charlotte and Ned
(correspondence concerning purchase of a Kent painting and personal problems)
Travis, Edmond C.
(correspondence with print dealer regarding consignments and misunderstanding over a "gift")
Trans Canada Airlines
Translations
Transport Workers Union of America
Treasury Department
F. R. Tripler & Co.
(about advertising illustration)
Trovillion, Mr.
Truman, Harry S.
(letters and telegrams to the president and other elected officials expressing Kent's opinions on political issues)
Trumball, Ray
Tsiang, H. T.
(correspondence with Tsiang, his attorney, and elected officials about deportation case, American-Chinese relations, attempts to help Tsiang publish his writings; poems by Tsiang)
Tsurikov, Alexi
Tuberculosis Association (see also: National Tuberculosis Association)
Tull, Clyde
Turban, Ann and Allen
Turchin, Maia
Turnage, Howard
Turner, Jeanette
Turner, Rev. Ralph E.
TV-Time
TWA
(concerning ticket and refund)
Tweedy, Mrs. Edna B.
(contract and correspondence with Kent and Jo Mielziner for interior design and mural decoration of lobby, stage, and curtain of Cape Playhouse Cinema, Dennis, Mass.; two blueprints, and photo of drawing of playhouse exterior)
Unanswered
(miscellaneous letters)
Underhill, Barbara
The Union League Club (New York)
(exhibition catalog)
USSR
(correspondence about Russian artists, U.S-Soviet relations, exhibition of Soviet war posters, and texts of articles and radio addresses)
USSR Gift
(thank-you letters, clippings, and news releases; see also: Friendship House; Gift Correspondence; Kent Collection)
USSR Trip
(news clippings, texts of articles and radio addresses by Kent, fan letters, and miscellaneous printed matter (largely in Russian; see also: Souvenirs of the USSR)
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Unitarian War Service Council
United Airlines
United American Artists
(correspondence about exhibitions, fund raising, fund raising, meetings, speaking engagements, Federal Arts Project legislation communications from local communications from local branches of UAA and from similar arts organizations; printed matter; minutes of executive and other committees; see also: Union of Office and Professional Workers of America; and United Scenic Artists)
United American Artists, cont.
United American Printmakers vs. Brooklyn Museum
(exhibition prospectus; correspondence concerning arrangements for exhibition, implication that a large number of rejections by the jury prompted the museum to postpone and later cancel the show, negotiations for a new jury; museum press releases and counter statements by UAP)
United American Spanish Aid Committee
(mainly printed matter, form letters, etc.; see also: Spanish Causes)
United Auto Workers
United Automobile, Aircraft, Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW-CIO)
United Electrical Workers
United Independent-Socialist Campaign Committee
United Mine Workers of America
United Office and Professional Workers of America
(convention bulletin and resolutions, 1940 and 1942; correspondence and printed matter; see also: United American Artists; United Scenic Artists)
United Packinghouse Workers of America
United Photographic Employees Union
United Scenic Artists
(correspondence concerning Kent's resignation as vice president of the Mural Painters Union and probable expulsion from United Scenic Artists (an AFL affiliate) because of activities in United American Artists (a CIO affiliate); miscellaneous printed matter; see also: United American Artists)
United Seamen's Service
United Service Organizations, Inc.
United States Appraiser
U.S. Camera Publishing Corp.
United States Congress Against War
(printed matter about apple maggots; lists of publications)
United States Government Printing Office
United States Information Agency
United States Patent Office
U.S. Trust--Disposition of Dairy, etc. (legal and tax advice; see also: Dairy)
(investments for the Estate of Sarah Holgate Kent; see also: Kent, Sarah Holgate, Estate of)
U.S. Week
United World Federalists, Inc.
Universities
(correspondence regarding speaking engagements)
The University of Chicago Press
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pittsburgh
University of Vermont
Untermeyer, Louis and Esther
(correspondence about social activities, news of mutual Friends, Louis Untermeyer issue of
Untermeyer, Louis and Esther, cont.
Uphaus, Willard
Utica Public Library
U, Illegible
(David U[?], 1959)
Vail, Gertrude
Vail, R. W. G.
Valda
Van Allen, Barbara
Van Anda, George
Van der Schelling
Van Rees Press
Van Slyke, Beatrice
Van Wicklen, F. W., Jr.
Van Wyck, William
Van Zant, Mr.
Vancouver Public Library
Vanguard Recording Society (see also: Finkelstein, Sidney)
Vanity Fair and Vogue
(correspondence regarding publication of Kent illustrations)
Varese, Edgar
Vassar Cooperative Bookshop
(correspondence concerning print consignments)
Vaughan, George
Vayana, Nunzio
(brochures and specifications)
Venice International Exhibition
Verges, Eugene M., 2nd
Vermont Federation of Women's Clubs
Vermont Marble Workers
(correspondence about strike and lecture contract that prohibited Kent from speaking in aid of strikers; letters to editors, clippings, news releases, etc.)
Vermont Marble Workers--Tombstones
(correspondence regarding a plan for developing a line of artistic tombstones)
Vermont, State of
(Kent's driver's license)
Vernon Kilns
(correspondence concerning developing a line of dinnerware decorated with Moby Dick and Salamina themes; orders and royalty accounts; advertisements)
Vesper George School
Victory Center
Vidar, Frede
Vietnam Peace Committee
Vigi, Fernand
The Viking Press
Vilas, Charles H.
(correspondence with new owner of
Vincent, Clara
Vineberg, Arthur
Violette, Mary Van Zendt
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Vischer, Peter
Viselier, Jane
(concerns dairy business)
Vogel, Ferdinand
(newsletter; see also: Spanish Causes)
VOKS
Vollwen, Marguerite
Von Horvath, Irene
Von Ladau, Jackie and Erick
Von Storch, Theo C.
Vorce, E. E.
Robert C. Vose Paintings
Voyaging
Voznich, Mrs. Wilfred
V, Illegible
(Frances Hill Von [N?], 1936)
Wagner, Dorothy
Wagner, T. B.
Wake Up!
(thank-you letters from friends for Christmas gift of lithograph)
Walker, Alfred
Walker's
Wallace, Edward J.
Wallace for President Committee
Wallace, Henry
Wallace, Lois
Walsh, Chad
Walter, Dick H.
Walters, R. Randolph
Walters, Thorstina
Wandell, Jack
War Department
(correspondence with George Biddle, chairman of War Department Art Advisory Committee, mainly about reorganization of postwar Federal Arts Project; see also: Federal Arts Project; WPA Miscellaneous)
War Price and Ration Board
War Shipping Administration
War Stamp Chain Letter
Ward, Harry F.
Ward Lumber Company
Ward, Lynd, and May McNeer
Ward, Mary F.
Ward, Rose and Dan
Ward, Sydney
Waring, Fred
The Warner Brothers Company Incorporated, Manufacturers
Warren, Frances H.
Washington Committee for Democratic Action
Washington Youth Council
Watson, Mrs. David
Watson, Morris
Waverly House Publishers
(target filmed last)
Way, Walther Denslow
"We Hold These Truths,"
(manuscripts of brief articles for
WEAF
Weatherby, Allen
(correspondence with family of psychiatric patient cared for by the Kents)
Weatherby, Frederick S.
Weaver, Edith and George Ahqupuk
(correspondence with and about Ahgupuk, a young Eskimo artist whom Kent represented and promoted)
Weaver, John V. A.
Webb Book Publishing Co.
(correspondence regarding illustrations for various books)
Webber, Melvin M.
Weber, Jim
Weber, Max
Weber, Palmer
Webster, Dr. Daniel
Webster, T. Preston, Jr.
Wedell, Carolyn (see also: Fan Mail)
Weeks, Rufus W.
Wegener, Ernest A.
Wegmann, Elizabeth
Wehs, Mr. and Mrs.
William Weiner Defense Committee
(form letters, news releases, and financial statements)
Weinstock, Louis
Weir, John and Edya
Weiss, Sid Cohen
Weizmann, Dr. Chaim
Wellscroft Club
Welsh, Margaret A.C.
Weng, Siegfried and Jerry
Wernery, Mrs. L. A.
Wesley, David
(correspondence about American press, Wesley's column and editorials in
Wesley, David, cont.
Wesselow, Eric
Westchester County and Its People
Western Association of Art Museum Directors
Western Union Telegraph Company
Westport Coal & Supply Company
Westport Yacht Club
Weygand, James Lamar
E. Weyhe
(correspondence with Carl Zigrosser about: family news, prints on consignment, exhibitions, reproduction permissions, and bookplate commissions; contract for exclusive rights; sales reports; lists of works exhibited and consigned, locations of destroyed woodblocks; see also: Zigrosser, Carl)
WGA War Broadcasts
"What Is an American?"
(draft and final manuscript of an article by Kent)
Wheeler, Steve
Whibley, Jenny
Whibley vs. Cobb and Kent
(legal briefs and transcripts of testimony in a lawsuit over returning remainder of trust fund following death of illegitimate son)
Whipple, C.
White Collar Workers Investigation
(correspondence about Senate investigation of living conditions and wages of white collar workers, including artists)
White, Rev. Eliot
White, Henry C.
White, John
White, Nelson C.
Whiteface
(letters to elected officials and editors protesting plan to construct highway on Whiteface mountain and subsequent plan for ski trails; letters praising Kent's position on the issues; clippings)
Whiteface Grange No. 1045
Whiteface Inn
Whiteface Ski Trail Amendment
Whiting, Elizabeth [sister of Kathleen Kent]
Whitman, Georgia [Lightbody] (see also: Lightbody, Charles and Georgia)
Walt Whitman Society of America
Whitney Museum of American Art
Whitney, Dr. Norman J.
Whittaker, Albert R.
Whitty, Flora
Who's Who in Graphic Art
Who's Who in the East
Wicher, Maria and Enos
Wickey, Harry
Wildenstein & Co., Inc.
(correspondence concerning sales and insurance; checklist and announcement for 1927 solo exhibition)
Wilder, Elizabeth Forbes
Wilder, Ernestine
Wilderness
(letters, telegrams and notes regarding trips to Newfoundland and South America; correspondence with agents and publishers regarding reissuing of book)
Wilderness, cont.
The Wilderness Society
Willard, Howard and Charlotte
(correspondence regarding speaking engagements, anti-Coughlin activities)
Williams, Mrs. Albert Rhys
Williams, Claude
Williams, Gil
Williams, Margaret
Williams, Marian
Williams, Roy
Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley
Williams, Warner
Willkie, Wendell L.
Willoughby Camera Stores, Inc.
Willoughby, Florance
Willy, W.
Wilson, Cora McDevitt
Wilson, Gilbert
(correspondence about Guggenheim Fellowship application, Art Young, and proposal for mural decoration of chapel)
The H. W. Wilson Company (see also: Contemporary American Artists)
Wilson, Jane
Wilson Mechanical Instrument Co., Inc.
Wilson, Robert A.
Wilson, Ruth
(concerning unpaid bills of former employee)
Winchester Art Association
Windward Islands
Wingate, Andrew
Winn, Jean
Winona Public Library
Winslow, Leon L.
Winter Soldiers
WIRY
Wisdom Encyclopedia
William H. Wise & Co.
(correspondence and contract concerning work on
Wishes, Sylvia
Witherell, Jane
Woholtjen, Henry
Wolff, Ernst Victor and Thea
Wolk, Mr.
Woman's National Institute
Woman's National Republican Club, Inc.
Woman's Press Club of New York City
Womrath Bookshops and Libraries, Inc.
Wood, Barbara (Mrs. Benjamin Wood)
Wood, Everett W.
Wood, Mrs. George B.
Woodruff, Chamberlain Hoyt
Woodward, Robert Strong
The Worker
Workers Bookshop
Workers Defense League
Workers Library Publishers
The World
World Congress for Peace
(form letters, miscellaneous printed matter, and correspondence about disarmament campaign, demonstrations, and Kent's participation in the group's activities)
World Council of Peace
(correspondence and printed matter [apparently very closely related to World Congress for Peace, possibly a successor organization])
World Council of Peace, cont.
World Famous Paintings (see also: Nuts; Welsh, Margaret A. C.)
World Tourists, Inc.
Worrell, Julia B. F.
Worrell, Richard
Wovschin, Flora Don
WPA Miscellaneous
see also: Black, Ruby; Citizens Committee for Government Art Projects; Federal Arts Project; Federal Fine Arts Project; Federal Writers Project; Roosevelt, Franklin D. and Eleanor; War Department)
Wrenn, Charles
Wright, Archie
(see also: Farmers' Educational and Cooperative Union of America; and Farmers' Union of the New York Milk Shed)
Wright, Esther
Writers Win-the-War Congress
Wyeth, Andrew and Jamie
(regarding selling of Kent painting; Jamie's purchase of Monhegan house)
Yashima, Taro and Mitsu
Yaswen, Gordon and Selma
Yesuretnam, H.
Yoder, Theodore
Young American Artists Association
Young American Writers
Young, Art
Young, Dan
Young, Mr. and Mrs.
Young, Owen D.
Young Progressives of New York
Young, Robert R.
Young Wives Crusade
Youth
(mainly printed matter)
Youth Arts Forum
Youth in Focus
Youth Workshop
Youth's Telescope
Yugoslav Embassy
Yugoslav Information Center
Yukon Jake Case
(concerning copyright problem)
Zaborovsky, Frank
(correspondence with Russian friend about family news, gift of Kent Collection to the USSR, exhibition, politics, requests for advice concerning granddaughter Tasha's proposed stay in Russia; see also: Russian Correspondence)
Zacker, The Rev. John Lewis, D.D.
Zahn, Mabel
Zahn, Mrs.
Zakhariew, Mr.
Zakheim, Bernard
Zalamea, Jorge
Zanheiser, Howard
Zarkevich, Nina
Zaumetzer, Mrs. Jessie
Zeitlin, Jake
Zhukov, G.
Ziferstein, Dr. Isidore
Zigrosser, Carl
(correspondence about New York art scene, mutual friends, Kent's painting and writing, politics, Zigrosser's activities at E. Weyhe and the Philadelphia Museum of Art; correspondence with Sally after Rockwell's death about Kent museum and care of farm; see also: American Artists Group; E. Weyhe)
Zilliacus, K.
(correspondence about Cold War and Yugoslavia, international politics, texts of articles by Zlliacus; see also:
Zinn, Mr.
Zundel, Eugenia
Zweig, Michael
Agnes
Agnus
Aileen
Albert
Albert
Aleck
Alex
Alexy
Alice
Andree
Anna
Anne
Anne and Barney
B.
Benjamin
Bill
Billie
Bob
Brad
Charles
Claire
Clark
Cress
Dale
Dan
Dan and Fannie
Dan and Rose
Dave
David
Dear friends (also Commodore)
Dee
Dee Dee
Dick
Dick
Dick and Bernice
Dixie
Don and Sigrid
Doris
Dorothy
Dot
Doug and Harry
Ed
Edith
Edmund
Eileen [Aileen?] and Guy
Eleanor
Eleanor
Elizabeth
Ellen
Eric
Ernestine
Ernst and Thea
Erwin and Janet
Flora
Florence
Francie
Franzi
Franzi, cont.
Georgia
Gertrude
Gladys
Guess Who
Gwen
Hans
Harold
Harry
Helen
Henry
Henry and Agnes
Hilde
Howard
Irene
Jack
Jane
Jean
Jean and George
Jenny
Jessica
Jim
Jim and Margaret
Joe
John
Joyce
June
Kasana
Kay
Keith and Leila
Kent
Lanky
Leif
Leo
Leon
Leonard
Libus
Lily
Linc
Linda
Louis
Ludwig
Lydia
Lynn
Margaret
Margaret and Nils
Maria
Marian
Marie
Marion
Mary
Mary and Steve
Marya
(previously sealed love letter)
Max and Lola
May
Moose
Naomi
Natasha and Muir
Nate and Anna
Norman
Pauline
Peggy
Pete and Catharine
Philippa
Polly
Ralfred
Renee
Rita
Russie
Sam
Shirley
Steve
Steve and Ruth
Syd and Bunny
Sylvia
Ted and Ida
Thelma
Tom and Elizabeth
Vera and Dick
Vivian, Irving, Paula, Bette, and Douglas
Wade
Wallie
Walter
Walter, Leslie, and Alice
Illegible
Unsigned
Writings, art work, miscellaneous items, and photographs were received from the Estate of Sally Kent Gorton in 2001. Although not physically integrated with the main portion of the collection, this addition to the Rockwell Kent papers is described with the appropriate series in the online edition of the finding aid.
Writings consist of Kent's continuation of his autobiography
Kent presented the manuscripts for most of his books to the USSR, along with the Kent Collection. Included in this series are drafts, notes, and completed manuscripts for monographs, articles, speeches, book reviews, catalog texts and introductory essays, and miscellaneous writings (often unidentified) by Kent. Manuscripts are arranged chronologically, with undated items arranged alphabetically by title. Also included at the end of the series are a small number of manuscripts by other authors.
The unpublished continuation of Kent's autobiography
See Appendix for an itemized list of writings from Series 2.
The bulk of this series has been scanned. Poems and political statements written by other authors have not been scanned.
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings by Sara Holgate Kent (mother)
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Writings
Unidentified Writings, "Pets and Paradise" and Miscellaneous Notes, undated
Art work consists of drawings and sketches in pencil and ink by Kent; also included are works on paper by other artists, many of whom are unidentified, and by children.
Many drawings and sketches of miscellaneous subjects and various projects, circa 1920-1929 and undated, and costume and set designs for Benjamin Britten's opera
The series is arranged into 2 subseries:
The bulk of this series has been scanned with the exception of drawings and sketches by other artists on various subjects.
Loose Items
(drawings and sketches in pencil and ink, 1910, 1914, and undated; floor plan and elevations of small house, undated; small sketches of household scenes titled "Happy Days"; rough sketches for design of Sally and Rockwell Kent letterhead, 1940)
Sketchbooks, Volume 1
(buildings, landscapes, sketches with notes regarding native costume [Alaska or Greenland?])
Sketchbooks, Volume 2
(small figures, compositions, notes "in acct with A. [bbott] H. T. [hayer]")
Sketchbooks, Volume 3
(portraits [Eskimos?], northern landscape)
Sketchbooks, Volume 4
(self-portraits; back contains work by C. K. B., 1972)
Sketchbooks, Volume 5
(landscapes-pages loose)
Sketchbooks, Volume 6
(landscapes-spiral bound)
Sketchbooks, Volume 7
(landscapes; floor plans with drawings of exteriors, architectural details; postcards; 1 photograph; printed reproductions, stamped Columbia University, with drawings done from them; note supplied by Sally Kent Gorton indicates that some sketches in this volume are by William Merritt Chase)
Sketchbooks, Volume 8
(feet; figure)
Sketchbooks, Volume 9
(buildings on Kent's property, AuSable Forks, N.Y.; landscapes)
Color Lithograph, Study for War Poster, "Man Killing Nazi Snake" (used in
Ink Drawings
Pencil Drawings
Miscellaneous Media, Paper Stencil Cutout for Dairy Advertisement (SKG Estate 2000.339), circa. 1939
Caricature of Kent (by unknown)
(most unidentified and undated, including: drawings and sketches in pencil and ink; colored print; cardboard and wire construction)
This series contains publications, articles, and newspaper clippings about Rockwell Kent and his family, items written and/or illustrated by Kent, reviews of his writings and exhibitions, miscellaneous articles on subjects of interest to him and publications inscribed to him. The series also includes printed matter about the Johnstone family, an article by Sally Kent, posters, and maps of the Adirondack region of New York State.
This series has been partially scanned. Miscellaneous clippings, maps, and monographs by and about Rockwell Kent have not been digitized.
About Rockwell Kent
(includes photo essay on Asgaard house designed by Kent; invitations to meet Rockwell Kent; press clippings)
About Rockwell Kent, cont.
Cartoons
(satirizing Kent's Greenland trip and artistic style; "Private Lives" informational cartoon; and crossword puzzle including Kent's name)
Political Activities
(congressional race materials; Jay Taxpayers Association-R.K., Chairman; Brief for Petitioners in
Kent Obituaries and Tributes
Kent Family
Writings and Speeches by Kent
Articles Illustrated by Rockwell Kent
Reproductions of Works by Rockwell Kent
Bookplates
(2 catalogs: "Bookplates by Rockwell Kent" and "Antioch Bookplate Papers, Volume 1")
Wilderness
Voyaging
N by E
Rockwellkentiana
Salamina
This Is My Own
Moby Dick
"On the Writings of Rockwell Kent,"
(compilation of excerpts of reviews, 1926-1941)
About Johnstone Family
By Sally Kent
Posters
Twenty-Fourth International Exhibition of Paintings, Carnegie Institute, October 15-December 6, 1925; National Tuberculosis Association, Christmas Seals, 1939; Kent Exhibitions in the USSR, circa 1958-1967 (4 posters, in Russian); Calavenas Divisionistas (not Kent; in Spanish; undated, unfilmed)
(Johnson, Fridolf, ed.
This series contains biographical data, legal documents, memorabilia, etc., documenting the life and career of Rockwell Kent. Also, ephemera of unknown origin and relationship are included.
Biographical data includes membership cards and related membership material from various professional and political organizations; engagement calendars from October 1928 to December 1930; and certificates of initiation and recognition from Joselyn Memorial Museum of Art, Knox College, and Columbia University. Legal documents include Kent's 1924 U.S. passport, and a draft of "Last Will and Testament of Rockwell Kent," dated March 20, 1928.
Artifacts consist of textile samples, dinnerware, a scarf, and wine cooler designed by Kent or featuring patterns based on his paintings and illustrations. These items are grouped by material type.
A boxed album of three 33 1/3 rpm long playing records with libretto of Benjamin Britten's opera
This series has been partially scanned. Artifacts and audiovisual materials have not been scanned.
Biographical Data
Legal Documents
Memorabilia
5 pieces: "Pine Tree" (green); "Pine Tree" (cream); "Waves of Grain" (brown); "Deer Season" (green); "Deer Season" (orange)
2 pieces: trees, mountains, and figures in historical costume (tan); trees, mountains, and figures in historical costume (green)
38 in. ?? 38 in., two shades of brown with white (worn and rehemmed in places)
6 pieces Moby Dick pattern: 10 in. plate, 7 in. plate, cup with saucer, demitasse cup with saucer; 9 pieces Salamina pattern: 10 in. plate, 8 in plate, 6 in. plate, egg cup, bowl, cup with saucer, demitasse cup with saucer; 9 pieces Our America pattern: 10 in. plate, 9 in. plate, 8 in. plate, 7 in. plate, 6 in. plate, sauce dish, bowl, demitasse cup with saucer
stamp image includes the words "Air Mail" and drawing of a bird flying over water and mountains; ceramic handle in the form of a bird perched on a tree stump
chrome-plated bucket, 9 1/4 in. tall, 8 1/4 in. circumference at top, with reproduction of Kent's woodcut
"Facsimile Letter from John Brown to the Rev. Luther Humphery, 19th November 1859"
"Phrenological Character of Mrs. C. A. Holgate [grandmother?] Given at Fowler & Wells' Phrenological Cabinet, June 5, 1867, by Nelson Sizer, Practical Phrenologist"
Petty cash book of George Rockwell Kent, [father of Rockwell Kent]
"Notes on Roofing" by Rockwell Kent
Technical Information
(notes and instructions for preparation of grounds and pigments)
Notes on Art
(from various sources, in unknown hand; includes bibliographic citations)
Lists of Supplies and Provisions for Expeditions
Map of Unidentified Place Drawn by Rockwell Kent
Music Manuscripts and Lyrics (in unidentified language(s))
Architectural Drawing (oversize),
Photographs, mainly unannotated, are of people, miscellaneous subjects, places, and works of art. Additional photographs were received from the estate of Kent's widow, Sally Kent Gorton, in 2001 and were microfilmed at a later date on reel 5741. Among them are photographs of people including Kent and his wives, Ted R. Lambert and Eugene Vuchatic; also, views of Asgaard Farm, the rebuilt Kent house at AuSable Forks, N.Y., and Kent's grave.
The photographs are organized into subseries and arranged in rough chronological order:
The bulk of this series has been digitized. Some photographs of Kent ancestors, duplicate prints, negatives and transparencies have not been scanned.
(daguerreotypes and ambrotypes of Kent ancestors)
Family, Photographic Prints
(depicting various family members, including Rockwell Kent as a young boy, and photograph albums)
Kent Family Album Vol. 1
Kent Family Album Vol. 2
Kent Family Album Vol. 3
Kent Family Album Vol. 4
Kent Family Album Vol. 5
Kent Family
Rockwell Kent
(includes Rockwell Kent family dressed in animal skins, circa 1915; at Sam Barlow's, 1920s; portraits by Arnold Genthe and Carl Van Vechten, 1920s-1930s; at a camp for teenagers, 1950s; at work painting, 1930s-1960s; at new house, 1970)
Rockwell Kent
Rockwell Kent
Rockwell Kent with Others
Rockwell Kent with others
Rockwell Kent in Alaska
(includes Kent's son, Rockwell Kent III)
Rockwell Kent in Greenland
(includes photo album, disbound and kept in original order)
Rockwell Kent in Moscow
Rockwell Kent in Moscow
Rockwell Kent in Tierra del Fuego, South America
Kathleen Kent (first wife)
Kathleen Kent (first wife)
Kent Child [Kathleen?]
Kent children
(some with their mother, Kathleen)
Frances Kent (second wife)
Frances Kent (second wife)
Rockwell and Frances Kent
Rockwell and Frances Kent
Family at Kent House, AuSable, N.Y.
(includes Kent, Kent children, and Frances)
Sally Kent (third wife)
Sally Kent (third wife)
Sally Kent with others
Rockwell and Sally Kent
Rockwell and Sally Kent
Rockwell and Sally Kent in Chicago
(Kent woodcut (?) and newspaper articles, one disbound album and one disbound scrapbook containing photos)
Rockwell and Sally Kent in the USSR
(includes disbound pages from albums and one album (vol. 5), undated)
Rockwell and Sally Kent in the USSR, cont.
Grandchildren
(children of Rockwell Kent III; Kathleen Finney, undated; Clara Kent; Susan or Natsha (Tasha) Kent; Tasha Kent and daughter; unidentified)
Alastair Johnstone (relative of Sally Kent)
William Merritt Chase Summer School, Shinnecock, Long Island
(includes interior view of Kent's studio)
Events
Events
Eugene Vuchetich working on a bust of Kent
Soviet Art Jury
Marsden Hartley
(wearing costume, inscribed: "This is yours humbly--after the Dirty Arts Ball 7 a.m., Marsden Hartley, Paris, June 1913")
Ted R. Lambert, Signal Corps Dog Derby
Paul Robeson
Pete Seeger (most photos also include Sally Kent)
Other Friends (most unidentified)
(includes photographic prints of Soviet students' visit to Kent's home in AuSable Forks, N.Y., 1942)
Scenes from Maxwell Anderson's play,
Arctic Art
Boats
John Brown's grave, Lake Placid, N.Y.
Miriam Brenner Grubin's grave
Rockwell Kent's grave
"Candidates for RK's hand and bed," by Frances Kent and Bob Benchley
Rebuilt House, AuSable Forks, N.Y.
Houses
(includes Kent's original and rebuilt homes and his studio at AuSable Forks, N.Y.; unidentified buildings; also Kent's mother's house in Tarrytown, N.Y., and son Gordon's house in Cazenovia, N.Y.)
Whales and Whaling
(research material for
Miscellaneous
(includes animals, "Adolf Loves Lindy" billboard; Miners at Inland Steel Company; Roosevelt theater marquee ("
Alaska
Asgaard Farm, AuSable Forks, N.Y.
Asgaard Farm, AuSable Forks, N.Y.
AuSable Forks, N.Y., and vicinity
Canadian Rockies
Faroe Islands
France
Greenland
Greenland and Denmark
Ireland
Monhegan Island, Maine
New York, N.Y.
Newfoundland
Puerto Rico
Tierra del Fuego, South America
(disbound albums and one album (vol. 6) [Tierra del Fuego? (circa 1922)] and Monhegan, including some photographs of Rockwell Kent, undated)
Tierra del Fuego, South America, cont.
USSR
Winona, Minn.
Unidentified places
(probably of Tierra del Fuego and Greenland)
Works of art found here are primarily by Kent but there are alos portraits of Rockwell Kent and miscellaneous works of ar and art objects by unknown artists at the end of the subseries.
China designs for Vernon Kilns
Drawings
(includes undated self-portrait)
Lettering
Lithographs
Medals
General Electric Co., New York World's Fair, Mural
(some views include Kent)
Post Office Department, Washington, D.C. Mural
Adirondacks
Paintings-Landscapes, Alaska
Paintings-Landscapes, Mt. Assiniboine
Paintings-Landscapes, Berkshire, Mass.
Paintings-Landscapes, France
Paintings-Landscapes, Greenland
Paintings-Landscapes, Ireland
Paintings-Landscapes, Monhegan Island, Maine
Paintings-Landscapes, Newfoundland
Paintings-Landscapes, New Hampshire
Paintings-Landscapes, Steinway Collection
Paintings-Landscapes, Tierra del Fuego
Paintings-Landscapes, Vermont
Paintings-Miscellaneous Figures and Still Life
Watercolors
Exhibition Installations, Various Locations
Exhibition Installations, USSR
Portraits of Rockwell Kent
(by F. G. Mories, Victoria Ebbels Hutson, Ernest Hamlin Baker, and unidentified artist name written in Russian)