KENT, ROCKWELL. Asgaard Dairy Milk. Circa 1935. Silk screen poster in six colors (tan, brown, black, red, blue, and green) on illustration board with a stand-up fold-out pasted on the back. 387 x 265 mm. (15¼ x 10 7/16 in.), minor soiling. From an edition of unknown size (two copies known). Inscribed in ink on verso: "Property of Sally Kent To be returned to her." Burne Jones 156 ("One copy is in the Kent Collection at Ausable Forks, N.Y., and another is in the Kent Collection of the Columbia University Library, New York." (2)

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KENT, ROCKWELL. Asgaard Dairy Milk. Circa 1935. Silk screen poster in six colors (tan, brown, black, red, blue, and green) on illustration board with a stand-up fold-out pasted on the back. 387 x 265 mm. (15¼ x 10 7/16 in.), minor soiling. From an edition of unknown size (two copies known). Inscribed in ink on verso: "Property of Sally Kent To be returned to her." Burne Jones 156 ("One copy is in the Kent Collection at Ausable Forks, N.Y., and another is in the Kent Collection of the Columbia University Library, New York." (2)

Provenance

Sally Kent, inscription on verso.

Lot Essay

"Kent produced only two known prints by the silk-screen method..."Happy Birthday to Me," and the undated print..."Asgaard Dairy Milk," the latter being a poster used in advertising milk from Kent's Asgaard Farm on the Ausable River in the Adirondack mountains of northern New York state."--Burne Jones, p. xiii.

[With:] A printed matchbook illustrated by Kent from the Asgaard Dairy.

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