Sundown
Artist
Rockwell Kent
(American, 1882-1971)
CultureAmerican
Date1921
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsOverall: 28 1/8 x 44 1/8 in. (71.4 x 112.1 cm)
Overall, Frame: 33 1/4 x 49 in. (84.5 x 124.5 cm)
Overall, Frame: 33 1/4 x 49 in. (84.5 x 124.5 cm)
InscribedSigned at LR: "Rockwell Kent 1921"
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.873
On View
Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 220
Label TextRockwell Kent American, 1882–1971 Sundown, 1921 Oil on canvas Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.873 Exhibition History"Three Hundred Years of American Art in the Chrysler Museum," Chrysler Museum at Norfolk, Va., March 1 - July 4, 1976. "Modernist Idylls: Nature and the Avant Garde, 1907-1930," Alentown Art Museum of the Lehigh Valley, Allentown, Pa., March 8 - May 30, 1987. "Rockwell Kent: the Mythic and the Modern," Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, June 23 - October 16, 2005. "Behind the Seen: The Chrysler's Hidden Museum," Large Changing Gallery, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., October 21, 2005 - February 19, 2006. Published ReferencesDennis R. Anderson, _Three Hundred Years of American Art in the Chrysler Museum_, exh. cat., Norfolk, Va., 1975, 194, ill in b/w. Jake Milgram Wien, _Rockwell Kent: The Mythic and the Modern_, exh. cat., The Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, 2005, 61, 66, 179, cat. no. 77. ISBN: 1-555595-260-7
