Greenlanders

"Greenland...stirred Kent's desire to paint, a desire that had been blunted during the 1920s by constant travel and the demands of his popular illustration work...Between 1929 and the early 1940s, he created the largest and most consistent body of work in his career, works either painted on the spot in Greenland or executed later from watercolors, sketches, and photographs brought back from Greenland... Kent was able to create in the Greenland paintings a "modern" style while retaining the integrity of the subject...Greenlanders inverts the usual figure-landscape relationship, the three men towering over the landscape as they pull and tug at a line. Although somewhat stylized, the individual features of the three Eskimos are depicted with great care." (R.V. West et al., An Enkindled Eye: The Paintings of Rockwell Kent, 1985, pp. 22-3)