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Chesterfield, MA, Berkeley, CA & Stockbridge, MA, Chameleon Books Inc., University of California Press & The Norman Rockwell Museum., 2000, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-520-22711-5) Buckram in Dust Jacket, Oblong 4to, 128pp, 59 color and 66 b&w illustrations. Designed by Arnold Skolnick. With an exhibition checklist, chronology and bibliography. "Distant Shores" captures Rockwell Kent's great enthusiasm for the sea and mountains, and the relationship between nature and humanity. Produced to accompany a 2000 traveling exhibition of the artist's work, this handsome volume features eighty paintings, prints, and drawings, (more than fifty in full color) related to Kent's sojourns in the wilderness of Maine, Newfoundland, Alaska, Tierra del Fuego, and Greenland. Included in this collection are works from The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg that have been unavailable to the public since the early 1960s. Kent's dramatic black-and-white illustrations for Herman Melville's Moby Dick - the engravings that popularized his work in the United States - are also featured". A pristine copy of the uncommon hardbound edition.. Fine/Fine.

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