Background
Kent was born on August 7, 1900 in Kentfield, California, one of seven children of women"s rights activist Elizabeth Thacher Kent and United States. congressman William Kent.
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Adaline Kent
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She studied in Paris with Antoine Bourdelle at the Grande Chaumiere.
Career
She created abstract sculptures with forms inspired by the natural landscape. Her grandfather, Albert Emmett Kent, had purchased a 800 acre farm in 1871, which later became the town of Kentfield. She began her education at Vassar College before returning to the Bay Area to study at the California School of Fine Arts.
They had two daughters, Ellen (May 1931 – October 1987) and Galen (born April 1933).
On March 24, 1957, Kent died in an accident while driving on the Pacific Coast Highway in Marin County. Adaline Kent was an alumna and a former board member (1947–1957) of the San Francisco Art Institute, and left it $10,000 to establish an annual award for promising artists from California.
The prize was awarded from 1957 to 2005. Winners included Ron Nagle (1978), Wally Hedrick (1985), David Ireland (1987), Mildred Howard (1991), Clare Rojas (2004), and the last recipient, Scott Williams (2005).
Solo exhibitions
San Francisco Art Center, 1934;
Courvoisier Gallery, San Francisco, 1941;
San Francisco Museum of Art (now called San Francisco Museum of Modern Art or SFMoMA), 1937, 1948, 1958;
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1953;
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1955.
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Nationality
American