biography of Norman KENT (1903-1972)

Birth place: Pittsburgh, PA

Death place: Mamaroneck, NY

Addresses: NYC; Marmaroneck, NY

Profession: Illustrator, teacher, lecturer, block printer, engraver, painter, writer, designer

Studied: Rochester Inst. Tech.; ASL; A. Lewis; L. Hoftrup; Clifford Ulp; in Italy.

Exhibited: CGA, 1940; Venice, Italy, 1940; NAD, 1944-45; PAFA, 1945; NAD, 1930-46; Milwaukee AI (solo); Albright Art Gal.; Rochester Mem. Art Gal.; Syracuse Mus. FA; New Britain Mus. Am. Art; Woodmere Art Gal.; Racine, WI; Albany, NY; and univs., colleges and libraries throughout U.S., 1927-64; in Rome, 1934; Spain 1953-54. Awards: prizes, Univ. Rochester, 1929; Rochester Pr. Club, 1935; Phila. Pr. Club, 1941; LOC, 1951 (purchase); AWCS O'Hara prize, 1954, William C. Osborn Mem. Award. 1959.

Member: ANA; NA; Rochester Print Club; SC; ASL; Prairie PM; Typophiles; All. Artists Am.; Century Assn.; Phila. WCC; Audubon Artists; AWCS: SAGA.

Work: In more than 40 public collections, including: MMA; CMA; Syracuse Mus. FA; PMA; BMA; Rochester Mem. Art Gal.; Rochester Inst. Tech.; Elmira Mus. Art; Milwaukee AI; Carnegie Inst.; Nat. Gal., Canada; LOC; Rochester, Arlington, Haverhill & New York public libraries; Hobart College; William Smith College

Comments: Specialty: wood engraving. Teaching: Hobart College, William Smith College. Positions: managing ed., Am. Artist, 1943-48; art dir., int. editions, Reader's Digest, 1948-51; art ed., True, 1952-55; ed., Am. Artist, 1956-60s. Pulications: co-ed. (with Ernest Watson): Watercolor Demonstrated, 1945; The Relief Print, 1945; auth./co-ed., Drawings by American Artists, 1947; The Book of Edward A. Wilson, 1948; Water Color Methods, 1955; Seascapes and Landscapes in Watercolor, 1956. Many reproductions with articles in major publications of woodcuts. Des. and illustr.: The Genesee Country, and others.

Sources: WW66; WW47.

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