Background
Kent, Rockwell was born in 1882 in Tarrytown Heights, New York, United States. Son of Rockwell and Sara (Holgate) Kent.
Kent, Rockwell was born in 1882 in Tarrytown Heights, New York, United States. Son of Rockwell and Sara (Holgate) Kent.
Educated Horace Mann School, New York and Columbia University. Studied art under William M. Chase, Robert Henri, Hayes Miller, Abbott H. Thayer.
Represented at Metropolitan Museum of New York, The Art Institute of Chicago of Chicago, Brooklyn Museum and other American Museums, Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Hermitage, Leningrad. Exhbtd. United States, S.A. and Europe. Chairman National Council American-Soviet Friendship.
Member National Academy, National Institute Arts and Letters, Academy Fine Arts Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics (honorary).
Married Kathleen Whiting, 1909.; married second, Frances Lee, 1926. Children: Rockwell, Kathleen, Clara, Barbara, Gordon.