A large nude figure strides across a night sky above a village church while a bird flies nearby.

Prints

Blue Bird

1919

Medium
Wood engraving
Dimensions
Sheet (Irregular): 14 7/8 × 13 3/8 in. (37.8 × 34 cm) Image: 6 1/16 × 6 1/16 in. (15.4 × 15.4 cm)
Accession number
31.694.2
Acquired
1931
Credit line
Gift of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
Reproduction credit
Rights courtesy of Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA, Rockwell Kent Collection, Bequest of Sally Kent Gorton. All rights reserved.
Edition
Ed. 115
Publication
Printed by Edwin Rudge
Department
collection

About this work

Rockwell Kent, Blue Bird, 1919. Wood engraving, sheet (Irregular): 14 7/8 × 13 3/8 in. (37.8 × 34 cm) Image: 6 1/16 × 6 1/16 in. (15.4 × 15.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 31.694.2. Rights courtesy of Plattsburgh State Art Museum, State University of New York, USA, Rockwell Kent Collection, Bequest of Sally Kent Gorton. All rights reserved.

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