Rockwell Kent
Nine Christmas Cards, c. 1935-1950
(Ausable Forks)
1800
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Group of Christmas cards featuring reproductions of illustrations by Kent. All cards are addressed to Martha and Alex Geckler, German friends of Kent's whom he met while working as the...
Group of Christmas cards featuring reproductions of illustrations by Kent. All cards are addressed to Martha and Alex Geckler, German friends of Kent's whom he met while working as the architectural foreman at Briarcombe Farms in Winona, Minnesota in the early nineteen-teens. All bear inscriptions from the artist, or from his wife, Sally. Four cards were produced by the American Artists Group while five show no imprint and were presumably produced by Kent. One card contains a longer messages from Kent— thanking Alex and Martha for the gift of nuts from their orchard, and makes direct statements about a wish for a peace "that embraces all of us and all the world," indicating it were sent during the Second World War. A fine archive, housed in an envelope for the 1935 greeting, with the Gecklers' Oakland address in Kent's hand.


