Maine Coast (1907): Art, History and Details

Maine Coast (1907) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Rockwell Kent (American, 1882–1971).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Located off the coast of Maine, Monhegan Island has long drawn artists attracted to its rugged headlands, brooding forests, and dramatic ocean vistas. Unlike most colleagues who visited during summer, Kent built a home and lived there year-round, working as a well digger, lobsterman, and carpenter from 1906–8. This boldly rendered winter scene was painted from his studio window.

Object facts

• Title: Maine Coast
• Date: 1907
• Creator attribution: Rockwell Kent (American, 1882–1971)
• Culture: America
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: Framed: 104.5 x 130.2 x 6.5 cm (41 1/8 x 51 1/4 x 2 9/16 in.); Unframed: 86.4 x 111.7 cm (34 x 44 in.)
• Collection: American - Painting
• Department: American Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1922.1132

A detail from the museum

Kent loved to paint landscapes in cold, remote areas, including Maine, Alaska, Newfoundland, and Greenland.

Collection credit

Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

• Brunswick, ME, Walker Art Museum, Bowdoin College, Rockwell Kent: The Early Years (15 August-15 October 1969)
• Milliken, William M. "The Second Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 9:6 (June 1922): 95-98.
• Glasier, Jessie C. "Museum Gets Prize-Winning Canvases: Bellows Subject, Kent Landscape Are Acquisitions." The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH), June 18, 1922.

View the collection record

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