Portrait by Carl Van Vechten For this installment of In The Stacks we sample a part of the extensive archive of Rockwell Kent's papers that reside at the Smithsonian. Kent traveled widely and wrote, painted and drew about his experiences. From Alaska to Greenland to Moscow, Kent and his family immersed themselves in the cultures they visited with each trip providing Kent a plethora of artistic fodder. In 1918 it was a trip to Alaska with his son that brought us the memoir Wilderness which the The New Statesman called "easily the most remarkable book to come out of America since Leaves of Grass was published."...
