About the Artwork
Night Flight
1941
Rockwell Kent
1882 - 1971
American
Unknown
Chiaroscuro woodcut printed in black and gray ink on wove paper
Image: 8 1/8 × 6 3/8 inches (20.6 × 16.2 cm) Sheet: 12 5/8 × 9 1/2 inches (32.1 × 24.1 cm)
Prints
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund
F80.178
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Markings
Signed, in pencil, lower right: Rockwell Kent.
Inscribed, in pencil, lower left: "Night Flight" Inscribed, lower right corner: E
Provenance
1980-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Jones, D.B. The Prints of Rockwell Kent: A Catalogue Raisonne. Chicago, 1975, p. 135, no. 132.
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Rockwell Kent, Night Flight, 1941, chiaroscuro woodcut printed in black and gray ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund, F80.178.
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