Rockwell Kent

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Rockwell Kent
1882-1971
"Sing Song" from City Child
1931
Pen and black ink on paper.
2 1/2 x 2 3/16 inches (63 x 55 mm)
The Joseph F. McCrindle Collection.
2009.179d
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Each of the eight pen-and-ink drawings from the McCrindle collection were studies for lithographs to illustrate Selma Robinson's book of poems "City Child," published in 1931. For this book, Kent printed four hundred proofs, one hundred for the artist and three hundred for Robinson's publication. The colophon accompanying City Child reads as follows: "This book, one of three hundred copies/ each signed by the author and by artist / exclusively for subscribers to / The Colophon, a book-collector's quarterly / was printed on Shogun Japanese paper / at the Walpole Printing Office / in New Rochelle, and bound by Peter Franck, / with the lithograph pulled / from the stone by George Miller, / in May Nineteen hundred and thirty-one" (Jones 1975, p. 63). Works cited: Dan Burne Jones, The Prints of Rockwell Kent, cat. rais., (Chicago and London, 1975).
1 of 8 illustrations (2009.179 a-d; 2009.180 a-d).

Provenance: 
Zeitlin & Ver Brugge Booksellers, Los Angeles; from whom acquired by Joseph F. McCrindle, New York, 20 April 1979 (McCrindle collection no. A0546).
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