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ROCKWELL KENT (1882-1971) And Now Where?
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$1,000 - $1,500
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$1,430
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The Artists of the WPA
Description
Description: ROCKWELL KENT (1882-1971)
And Now Where? Lithograph. 335x240 mm; 13x9 inches, full margins. Published by the American Artists Group, New York. 1936.A very good impression. With original paper mat as issued. Burne-Jones 110. Kent's And Now Where? originally appeared to the public in The New York Woman magazine in 1936. Kent was a WPA muralist who was then known for his controversial commission for the Post Office in Washington, D.C. (now the Clinton Federal Building) . The mural portrayed Puerto Rico's first airmail delivery and seemed to sympathize with the cause for Puerto Rican independence. A woman is shown with a letter in Kuskokwim Eskimo dialect that reads "To the people of Puerto Rico, our friends! Let us change chiefs. That alone can make us equal and free!"