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SPRING FRESHET (VIEW OF THE AU SABLE RIVER)

SPRING FRESHET (VIEW OF THE AU SABLE RIVER)

measurements
20 by 24 in.

alternate measurements
(50.8 by 61 cm)

signed Rockwell Kent and dated 1945, l.l.

oil on canvas mounted on panel

This painting will be included in Scott R. Ferris' forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's paintings.

This painting will be included in the catalogue raisonné currently being prepared by Richard V. West.

PROVENANCE

Private Collection, 1945 (acquired directly from the artist)
By descent in the family (sold: Sotheby's, New York, June 28, 1989, lot 282, illustrated)
(probably) Acquired by the present owner at the above sale

LITERATURE

Scott R. Ferris and Carolyn Welsh, The View from Asgaard: Rockwell Kent's Adirondack Legacy, Blue Mountain Lake, New York, Adirondack Museum, 1999, pp. 29, 58

NOTE

Richard West writes, "After the artist's return from his last trip in Greenland, he settled permanently (except for occasional trips) in the Adirondacks. Located near the town of Au Sable Forks, his home was situated in a verdant valley he called Asgaard ("Home of the Gods"). During the 1940s through the 1960s, the majority of Kent's new works were views of Asgaard and the surrounding area. This painting is one of that series, captures a portion of the Au Sable River rapids near the artist's home. Other examples of this subject exist, such as the oil Au Sable River Rapids of circa 1950 in the collections of the museum at SUNY, Plattsburgh.

In this painting...Kent concentrates on the power and sweep of the current as it tumbles over and around the massive rocks in the river, contrasted with a delicate frieze of trees and distant houses on the far shore. The artist constructs the rocks with strong, easy strokes enlivened by touches of color set off by the scumbled white foam and vivid green hues of the water."