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151 ROCKWELL KENT.
“To The Northwest Wind.” Ink on paper. 184x216 mm; 7
1
/
4
x8
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2
inches. Ex-collection
Arthur Price, who has penciled “`The Northwest Wind’ Sketch for ‘Wilderness’ (Not
Used)’”on lower matte recto. 1918.
[3,000/4,000]
Arthur Price was among Kent’s many lifelong patrons and collectors who included Dunan Phillips,
Carl Zigosser, and Merle Armitage. He was the mail order sales manager of Sears, Roebuck & Co.
in the years surroundingWorldWar II and later became president of the Pennsylvania General Paper
Corporation. Throughout the 1940s, he assembled a diverse collection of Kent’s works on paper
which contained numerous study drawings and watercolors conceived primarily in Alaska and
Greenland, many obtained directly from Kent. Price, whom Kent mentions in his autobiography
“It’s Me O Lord” (pages 560, 564-66), was an also an illustrator and adventurer in his own right.
He died only three months after Kent in 1971.